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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.
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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.

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International Public Goods and the Case for Foreign Aid

TL;DR: In the presence of international public goods, donors are faced with two instruments whereby recipient utility may be altered -contributions towards the international public good and direct transfers (conventional foreign aid).
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Is housing still the business cycle? Perhaps not

TL;DR: This article showed that residential investment led GDP under a wide range of specifications, while non-residential investment did not, and showed that the increasing stringency of local land use policy had interfered with the ability of the Federal Reserve to use housing as an instrument on monetary policy.
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Equity as a Prerequisite for Stable Cooperation in a Public-Good Economy - The Core Revisited

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the relationship between an equitable distribution of the cost shares in public-good provision and the core property of an allocation on the other hand and show that it is an inhomogeneous distribution of cost shares that motivates some coalition of agents to separate and to block an initially given Pareto optimal allocation which can be interpreted as the outcome of a negotiation process when all agents form a grand coalition.
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Community and Anti-Poverty Targeting

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on groups which are "communities", meaning that individuals who have access to community-specific public goods from which non-members are excluded and show that differential access constitutes a source of inequality among poor individuals belonging to different communities, which is not captured by monetary earnings.
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Games Played on Networks

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study games played on fixed networks and establish a common analytical framework to study a wide class of games, including coordination games, best-shot games, and continuous actions and linear best replies.
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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.
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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.
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Economists free ride, does anyone else?: Experiments on the provision of public goods, IV

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.
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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.