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Recent international climate negotiations suggest that complete agreements are unlikely to materialize. Instead …-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome undersupply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract …
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Recent international climate negotiations suggest that complete agreements are unlikely to materialize. Instead …-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome undersupply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010559785
Matching mechanisms have been proposed to mitigate underprovision of public goods in voluntary contribution models …. This paper investigates Pareto-improving equilibria under various matching schemes with two heterogeneous players. First …, this matching mechanism avoids free riding and each player has incentives to provide matching contributions at interior …
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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 …
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Matching mechanisms are widely regarded as providing a promising way to cure the public good underprovision problem …, but the Pareto optimal interior matching equilibrium emerges only under very special conditions. However, we show that …
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Recent international climate negotiations suggest that complete agreements are unlikely to materialize. Instead …-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome undersupply of public goods … like climate protection. The functioning of matching mechanisms in a setting with an incomplete agreement, i.e. a contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107170
In the presence of local public goods differences in tastes are an important determinant of the way in which partnerships are formed. Heterogeneity in tastes for private vs. public goods produces a tendency to positive assortment and partnerships of couples with similar tastes; heterogeneity in...
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Consider a non-governmental organization (NGO) that can invest in a public good. Should the government or the NGO own the public project? In an incomplete contracting framework with split-the-difference bargaining, Besley and Ghatak (2001) argue that the party who values the public good most...
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experiment with fiveperson committees that compares three alternative voting rules: unanimity (q=5); majority (q=3); and …
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