2022/02/26 by Linjie Liu, Xiaojie Chen, Liu, Linjie +1 · 1 citation
Mathematics · Social Sciences · #Culture, Economy, and Development Studies #Dynamical Systems (math.DS) #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Experimental Behavioral Economics Studies #FOS: Mathematics #math.DS
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2202.13104
Accepted for publication in Applied Mathematics and Computation
openalex publication_date 2022/02/26 · arxiv created 2022/03/07 · arxiv updated 2022/03/08 · openalex created_date 2022/04/03 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The view that altruistic punishment plays an important role in supporting public cooperation among human beings and other species has been widely accepted by the public. However, the positive role of altruistic punishment in enhancing cooperation will be undermined if corruption is considered. Recently, behavioral experiments have confirmed this finding and further investigated the effects of the leader's punitive power and the economic potential. Nevertheless, there are relatively few studies focusing on how these factors affect the evolution of cooperation from a theoretical perspective. Here, we combine institutional punishment public goods games with bribery games to investigate the effects of the above factors on the evolution of cooperation. Theoretical and numerical results reveal that the existence of corruption will reduce the level of cooperation when cooperators are more inclined to provide bribes. In addition, we demonstrate that stronger leader and richer economic potential are both important to enhance cooperation. In particular, when defectors are more inclined to provide bribes, stronger leaders can sustain the contributions of public goods from cooperators if the economic potential is weak.