"Identification of Suitable Management Policies for Public Goods by using Game Theory".

ENRIQUE E. TARIFA; JORGELINA F. ARGAÑARAZ; JULIETA MARTÍNEZ; ELEONORA ERDMANN

Montréal, Quebec, Canada.

Congreso; 8th World Congress of Chemical Engineering Incorporating the 59th Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference and the XXIV Interamerican Congress of Chemical Engineering.; 2009

École Polytechnique Montréal - McGill University - The Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering

<!-- /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:EN-GB; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} @page Section1 {size:612.0pt 792.0pt; margin:70.85pt 3.0cm 70.85pt 3.0cm; mso-header-margin:36.0pt; mso-footer-margin:36.0pt; mso-paper-source:0;} div.Section1 {page:Section1;} --> the objective of this work is to identify suitable management policies for public goods by using game theory. In particular, a new public goods game is used. This kind of game is broadly used in experimental economics, and they reproduce the conditions arising when a community undertakes the execution of a project for obtaining public goods (e.g., river flood defense, asphalt for streets, public illumination systems). In this work, a new public goods game was designed with innovative characteristics both in the model and in the workshop implementation. The game was designed to reach the following objectives for a given community: to know the degree of cooperation; to identify the most appropriate management politics for increasing the degree of cooperation; and to motivate the reflection about the cooperation importance. Among the evaluated policies, it is remarkable the effectiveness of that one generated from the mathematical model of the game. Several workshops were carried out in different communities of Jujuy (a state of Argentina); in all of those workshops, both participants and authorities of the communities highlighted the importance of the obtained results.