When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to … reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the …

Matching mechanisms are regarded as an important instrument to bring about Pareto optimal allocations in a public good … interior matching equilibrium, however, emerges only under very special conditions. But we show in this note that corner … results by a simple numerical example. -- public goods ; matching ; Pareto optimality …