Behavioral Economy and Public State Aids: Why Iranians Refused to Give Up on Government Subsidy Receipt? (A Multiple Prisoner’s Dilemma Game)
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Subsidy reform scheme, Prisoner’s dilemma game, Refusal to give up on subsidy receipt, Lie, Iran
Abstract
This article uses the game theory, more specifically multiple prisoner’s dilemma game, to analyze why Iranians refused to give up on receiving public subsidies in April 2014, in spite of frequent requests of the government. Sample of study consists of two main groups: the ones who were not dependent on government subsidy but were applying for it; and the ones who did not depend either but had fraudulently pretended to depend on government subsidy. some suggestions are presented such as to define chicken game and not prisoner’s dilemma game as the main game.
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Mohammad Reza Javadi Yeganeh, Department of Sociology, University of Tehran
Ph.D. thesis: Social dilemma in Iran (2004); Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Tehran; Head of department of Sociology, University of Tehran; current interest: Historical Sociology, Social History, Sociology of Literature, Rational Choice Theory.
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