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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Selfish Drug Allocation for Containing an International Influenza Pandemic at the Onset
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Income redistribution and public good provision: an experiment
TL;DR: In this paper, the relevance of Warr's neutrality theorem was investigated experimentally in the context of an unexpected income redistribution among group members, and the results showed that redistribution does not affect the amount of voluntarily provided public good.
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Informal Care and the Division of End-of-Life Transfers
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Common agency and public good provision under asymmetric information
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the problem of public goods provision under asymmetric information without a mediator and show that the problem is ex post inefficient and interim efficient if and only if the type distribution has a linear inverse hazard rate.
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The private provision of a public good is independent of the distribution of income
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