On the private provision of public goods
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
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
Citations
More filters
Posted Content
An Experimental Test of the Crowding Out Hypothesis
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the results of laboratory experiments that examine whether third-party contributions crowd out private giving to charity, and they find that, in the first frame, they see a level of crowding out that is close to zero, far less than other experimental studies.
Journal ArticleDOI
Dyke Maintenance and Other Stories: Some Neglected Types of Public Goods
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce a class of functions of which the summation, weakest-link, and best-shot are examples, and analyze the properties of equilibrium when consumers have identical tastes and incomes.
Journal ArticleDOI
How (Not) to Raise Money
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that standard winner-pay auctions are inept fund-raising mechanisms because of the positive externality bidders forgo if they top another's high bid.
Journal ArticleDOI
Does Female Empowerment Promote Economic Development
Matthias Doepke,Michèle Tertilt +1 more
TL;DR: This article developed a series of non-cooperative family bargaining models to understand what kind of frictions can give rise to the observed empirical relationships and assess the policy implications of these models, finding that targeting transfers to women can have unintended consequences and may fail to make children better off.
Journal ArticleDOI
Public subsidies and charitable giving: Crowding out, crowding in, or both?
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored whether government subsidies to nonprofit organizations leverage (crowd in) private donations, or rather crowd them out, and concluded that the maximization of private donations and total "unearned" revenues are not compatible goals.
References
More filters
Book
A Treatise on the Family
TL;DR: The Enlarged Edition as mentioned in this paper provides an overview of the evolution of the family and the state Bibliography Index. But it does not discuss the relationship between fertility and the division of labor in families.
Journal ArticleDOI
Are Government Bonds Net Wealth
TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider the effects of different types of intergenerational transfer schemes on the stock of public debt in the context of an overlapping-generations model and show that finite lives will not be relevant to the capitalization of future tax liabilities so long as current generations are connected to future generations by a chain of operative inter-generational transfers.
Journal ArticleDOI
Economists free ride, does anyone else?: Experiments on the provision of public goods, IV
Gerald Marwell,Ruth E. Ames +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, closely related experiments testing the free rider hypothesis under different conditions, and sampling various sub-populations, are reported, and results question the empirical validity and generality of a strong version of the hypothesis.
Journal ArticleDOI
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.