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Voting on Public Goods : Citizens vs. Shareholders

Döttling, Robin; Levit, Doron Y.; Malenko, Nadya; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

technologies that increase investor diversification or enable pass-through voting have important implications for these trade …

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Corporate Social Responsibility and Voting over Public Goods

Samwick, Andrew; Wang, Sophie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper analyzes the impact of corporate social responsibility (CSR) on the total provision of public goods in a framework in which consumers who may make such voluntary contributions to public goods via CSR are also voters who decide on the level of taxes to finance publicly provided public...

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Variation in State Response to Open Access : Constituent Characteristics

Libecap, Gary D. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Open access, competitive exploitation can be incredibly damaging to valuable resources and the human populations that depend upon them. Even though wealth, resource rents and stocks are at stake, open access often seems to be ineffectively addressed across time and space. Institutions vary....

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Resolving Intertemporal Conflicts : Economics vs Politics

Millner, Antony - 2014

Intertemporal conflicts occur when a group of agents with heterogeneous time preferences must make a collective decision about how to manage a common asset. How should this be done? We examine two methods: an 'Economics' approach that seeks to implement efficient allocations, and a 'Politics'...

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Overcoming the common pool problem through voluntary cooperation : the rise and fall of a fishery cooperative

Deacon, Robert T. - 2010

We analyze a seldom used, but highly promising form of rights-based management over common pool resources that involves the self-selection of heterogeneous fishermen into sectors. The fishery management regime assigns one portion of an overall catch quota to a voluntary cooperative, with the...

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Collective Choice and Voluntary Provision of Public Goods

Epple, Dennis - 2000

Some public goods are provided entirely with private contributions, others with a mixture of public and private funding, and still others are entirely publicly funded. To explain this variation, a model of dual provision is developed that endogenizes public and private funding. Members of the...

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Public Goods in Trade : On the Formation of Markets and Political Jurisdictions

Casella, Alessandra - 1990

The current debate in Western Europe centers on the relationship between economic and political integration. To address this problem, we construct a simple general equilibrium model in which the returns to trading are directly affected by the availability of a public good. In our model,...

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Proprietary Public Finance, Political Competition, and Reputation

Grossman, Herschel I. - 1988

spending policy that focuses on the effects of political competition and its interaction with other constraints on policy … theory of a proprietary fiscal authority whose objective is to extract rents for the political establishment, the proprietor … political competition can induce the proprietary fiscal authority to behave more like a hypothetically benevolent fiscal …

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The Political Economy of Public Debt : A Laboratory Study

Battaglini, Marco - 2016

debt associated with larger majority requirements. Also in line with the theory, we find that debt is lower when the …

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The Political Agenda Effect and State Centralization

Acemoglu, Daron - 2016

We provide a potential explanation for the absence of, and unwillingness to create, centralized power in the hands of a national state based on the political agenda effect. State centralization induces citizens of different backgrounds, interests, regions or ethnicities to coordinate their...

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