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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The Optimal Treatment of Tax Expenditures
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Social dilemmas among unequals.
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Distributional Effects in Household Models: Separate Spheres and Income Pooling*
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Weakest-link public goods: Giving in-kind or transferring money
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TL;DR: In this paper, the analysis of weakest link public goods is extended by allowing an agent either to increase one's own provision or augment both one's provision and that of the other agent(s).
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