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 best-shot all-pay (group) auction with complete information
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Moral relativism as a disconnect between behavioural and experienced warm glow
Eamonn Ferguson,Niall Flynn +1 more
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Elderly Care and Intrafamily Resource Allocation when Children Migrate.
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Why share in peer-to-peer networks?
TL;DR: This work approaches P2P networks as a graph-theoretic problem and presents sufficient conditions for sharing and free-riding to co-exist due to indirect incentives the authors call generalized reciprocity.
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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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