The impact of retention time of donation list on cooperation in public goods game
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THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL B
Regular Article
The impact of retention time of donation list on cooperation in public goods game Xueya Li, Tong Chen, Qiao Chen a , and Xiaoyang Zhang College of Management and Economics, Tianjin University, Tianjin 300072, P.R. China
Received 1 August 2020 / Received in final form 12 September 2020 / Accepted 17 September 2020 Published online 9 November 2020 c EDP Sciences / Societ`
a Italiana di Fisica / Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature, 2020 Abstract. The donation list contains a lot of information, and the way it is published will affect the development of cooperation. This article incorporates comments and individuals’ tolerance of their own reputation evaluation into public goods game and then explores the influence of list retention time on cooperation. Evolutionary results show that introducing the time factor into the donation list will attract more public donations. Furthermore, by putting a small percentage of players on the list, more players’ participation in public services can be leveraged. Compared with the immediate announcement, a relatively large list retention time not only inspires people’s enthusiasm for donation but also achieves a higher level of cooperation. Historical information and diffusion probability have something to do with cooperation. Our research helps organizers to effectively solve the dilemma of insufficient public participation in public utilities.
1 Introduction Public culture plays an important role in people’s life [1]. Shadow puppet is a popular cultural activity in some northern villages of China. It is a dramatic form that allows the audience to watch a kind of flat puppet show through the white curtain. The funds needed for the performance are raised by villagers. Long ago, organizers would place love boxes in a visible location and then announce the donor’s name through a tweeter to encourage more villagers to donate. However, this way is presented only by sound, which is ephemeral and cannot be viewed at any time. Thus, it evolves into publishing list. At the same time, we discover such a phenomenon: when some villages provide high-level shadow puppet performances, of course the cost is comparatively higher, the names of villagers who contribute more will be engraved on stone tablets. While performing ordinary shadow puppets, some villages’ organizers choose to post villagers with high contributions on red papers. This stimulates our curiosity: the retention time of stone tablets is longer than red papers. Does the difference in the retention time of donation list have different impacts on villagers’ donations, leading to the supply of high-quality performances in some villages? Are stone tablets and red papers just ways of recording, which have no bearing on the supply of public goods? a
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Cooperation is ubiquitous, ranging from the normal functioning of an individual to the global fight against epidemics [2–5]. So, it is necessary to study the emergence of cooperation among self
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