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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On the private provision of public goods on networks
TL;DR: The uniqueness result simultaneously extends similar results in Bergstrom, Blume, and Varian (1986) on the private provision of public goods to networks and Bramoulle, Kranton, and D'Amours (2011) on games of strategic substitutes to nonlinear best-reply functions.
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Strategy in contests: an introduction
TL;DR: In this article, the authors survey the role of various design aspects of this type of competition, such as prize structure, sequencing, nesting, repetition, elimination contests and many others.
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Ideals versus Dollars: Donors, Charity Managers, and Government Grants
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The Behavioral Response to Voluntary Provision of an Environmental Public Good: Evidence from Residential Electricity Demand
TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a theory of voluntary provision of a public good in which a household's decision to engage in a form of environmentally friendly behavior is based on the desire to offset another behavior that is environmentally harmful.
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Contests with group-specific public-good prizes
TL;DR: It is shown that low-valuation players free ride on high-valuations players’ contributions, not vice versa, but the free-rider problem is “alleviated” as compared with the basic model.
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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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