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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Cournot-Nash and Lindahl equilibria in pure public “bad” economies
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The Max-Min Group Contest: Weakest-link (Group) All-pay Auction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate a group all-pay auction in which each group's effort is represented by the minimum among the effort levels exerted by the group members and the prize is a group-specific public good.
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International environmental policy and poverty alleviation
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate how alternative national and international policies and circumstances impact the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) contribution to sustainable development and the pursuit of poverty eradication goals in developing countries.
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Group size and free riding when private and public goods are gross substitutes
TL;DR: This paper showed that an expansion of group size exacerbates free-riding tendencies as long as private consumption and the public good are strictly normal and weak gross substitutes, and generalized a previous Cobb-Douglas example with respect to preferences and asymmetric equilibria.
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On the Private Provision of Two or More Public Goods
Richard Cornes,Jun-ichi Itaya +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the simple model of voluntary public good provision to allow for two or more public goods, and explore the new possibilities that arise in this setting, and show that, when there are many pub- lic goods, voluntary contribution equilibrium typically generates, not only too low a level of public goods provision, but also the wrong mix of goods.
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Economists free ride, does anyone else?: Experiments on the provision of public goods, IV
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