TY  - BOOK
AU  - Engi Mohamed Eid Amin
AU  - Amal Sanaa Soliman , 
TI  - An experimental and computational analysis of the public goods dilemma / 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Cairo : 
PB  - Engi Mohamed Eid Amin , 
KW  - Heterogeneous agents
KW  - Public goods
KW  - Social dilemma
N1  - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Economics and Political Science - Department of Social Science Computing; Issued also as CD
N2  - A social dilemma is a complex social phenomenon in which there is a conflict between rational  individual interest and collective interest. The public goods dilemma is one of the most renowned  social dilemmas. This thesis focuses on examining voluntary contributions towards the funding of  a public good. Results from human-subject experiments reveal a decline in contributions towards  a public good with repetition. This decline has been attributed to many factors including the  presence of agents with heterogeneous preferences. This research examines the role of  heterogeneous agents in the study of public goods using the voluntary contribution mechanism. A  human-subject experiment was conducted to classify agent types and determine their effects on  contribution levels. Results from the experiment show that there are three main types of agents:  free-riders, conditional cooperators and triangular contributors. Data from the experiment was used  to build and calibrate an agent-based simulation model. The simulations display how different  agent types affect the contribution levels. Findings indicate that conditional cooperation and the  norms of reciprocity are an important determinant of a population{u2019}s contribution pattern. The  current simulation model can be used as a building block of a more developed and inclusive  platform for studying the different scopes of the public goods problem
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