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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Why are tax expenditures for giving embodied in fiscal constitutions
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Mandatory Minimum Contributions, Heterogenous Endowments and Voluntary Public-Good Provision
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The effect of uncertainty on interactive behaviour
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Collective Choice and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods
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TL;DR: In this paper, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding, and the relevance of nonexcludability and noncongestion is investigated for small and large economies.
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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
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