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January 2008

An Evolutionary Analysis of the Volunteer’s Dilemma

January 31, 2008

by David P Myatt and Chris Wallace.
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Games and Economic Behavior, 62(1), pp. 67-76, January 2008.
Abstract: A public good is produced if and only if a volunteer provides it. There are many pure-strategy Nash equilibria in each of which a single player volunteers. Noisy strategy revisions (for instance, quantal responses) allow play [...]

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