On the private provision of public goods
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In this article, the authors consider a general model of non-cooperative provision of a public good and show that there is always a unique Nash equilibrium in the model and characterize the properties and the comparative statics of the equilibrium.About:
This article is published in Journal of Public Economics.The article was published on 1986-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2237 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Public good & Public goods game.read more
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Does the NEA Crowd Out Private Charitable Contributions to the Arts
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Public Good Theories of the Nonprofit Sector
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Economists free ride, does anyone else?: Experiments on the provision of public goods, IV
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The private provision of a public good is independent of the distribution of income
TL;DR: When a single public good is provided at positive levels by private individuals, its provision is unaffected by a redistribution of income as discussed by the authors, regardless of differences in individual preferences and despite differences in marginal propensities to contribute to the public good.