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Excludable and non-excludable public inputs : consequences for economic growth

Ott, Ingrid (contributor); Turnovsky, Stephen J. (contributor) - 2005

Many public goods are characterized by rivalry and/or excludability. This paper introduces both non-excludable and … and user-cost structure. Our results emphasize the role of congestion in determining this optimal financing structure and …, depending upon the degree of congestion. We extend the model to allow for monopoly pricing of the user fee by the government …

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Are user fees really regressive?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2012

This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing user fees for publicly provided excludable public goods into a model with consumption and income taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in earnings and second-best policy is chosen by a...

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On the provision of excludable public goods general taxes or user prices?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2020

without any user charges, to provision with full user charges; we also study mixed systems. In our quest for the best system …

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Can poductive government spending be the engine of long-run growth when labor supply is engogenous?

Park, Hyun; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2002

We reexamine the properties of optimal fiscal policy and their implications for implementable capital accumulation. The setup is a standard endogenous growth model with public production services, augmented by elastic labor supply. We show that, when a benevolent government chooses a distorting...

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Why cities should not be subsidized

Fenge, Robert; Meier, Volker - 2001

to agglomeration economies and a higher cost of the publicly provided good due to congestion. It is shown that …

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Taxes or fees? : the political economy of providing excludable public goods

Swope, Kurtis J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2001

This paper provides a positive analysis of public provision of excludable public goods financed by uniform taxes or fees. Individuals differing in preferences decide using majority-rule the provision level and financing instrument. The median preference individual is the decisive voter in a tax...

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