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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An analysis of peer-to-peer networks with altruistic peers
TL;DR: A new model of the interaction of rational peers in a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network that has at its heart altruism, an intrinsic parameter reflecting peers’ inherent willingness to contribute is developed.
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Should income inequality be praised? Multiple public goods provision, income distribution, and social welfare
Jun-ichi Itaya,Atsue Mizushima +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated how income inequality affects social welfare in the model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods, and they showed that if altruistic preferences is strong enough, inequality-raising redistribution policy does not affect social welfare.
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Appeasing nihilists? Some economic thoughts on reducing terrorist activity
TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that undifferentiated deterrence may indeed backfire, but so may an increase of the opportunity costs of terrorism, and that a very targeted anti-terrorism policy aimed only at active terrorists would then be the most reasonable remaining approach.
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Cost Manipulation in an Asymmetric Oligopoly: The Taxation Problem
Ngo Van Long,Antoine Soubeyran +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the problem of altering the cost structure within an oligopoly, in the presence of costs of manipulation, has been analyzed, and it is shown that it is optimal to give asymmetric treatment to ex-ante identical oligopolists.
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Heterogeneity, returns to scale, and collective action
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of resource inequality and valuation heterogeneity on the provision of public goods with increasing or decreasing returns to scale in production are analyzed. And the authors characterize the expected equilibrium public good level as function of various distributional properties and moments.
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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.