Can evolutionary dynamics explain free riding in experiments?

Can Evolutionary Dynamics Explain Free Riding in Experiments?

Free riding experiments have generated many anomalous results that cannot be explained with standard Nash equilibrium models of public goods. This paper examines the experiments within the context of evolutionary game theory. This approach models the decision process of agents by an adaptive learning algorithm. The algorithm ‘strengthens’ strategies that do relatively well and ‘weakens’ strateg...

Leading The Ignorant: Can Ignorance Eliminate The Free Riding Problem?

leading the ignoranti: can ignorance eliminate the free riding problem?

Control without Deception: Individual Behaviour in Free-Riding Experiments Revisited

Lying to participants offers an experimenter the enticing prospect of making “others’ behaviour” a controlled variable, but is eschewed by experimental economists because it may pollute the pool of subjects. This paper proposes and implements a new experimental design, the Conditional Information Lottery, which offers all the benefits of deception without actually deceiving anyone. The design s...

leading the ignorant: can ignorance eliminate the free riding problem?

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