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Matching as a cure for underprovision of voluntary public good supply: Analysis and an example

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2011

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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Potentially harmful international cooperation on global public good provision

Buchholz, Wolfgang; Cornes, Richard; Rübbelke, Dirk - 2012

-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 … by analyzing incomplete matching agreements in the context of international climate protection. We analyse their effect …

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Fiscal rules, local fiscal policies and households' mobility

Fontana-Casellini, Laura - 2022

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Collective labour supply with children

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Blundell, Richard W.; Meghir, … - 2002

We extend the collective model of household behavior to allow for the existence of public consumption. Under a separability assumption, we show that the observation of the labor supplies and the household demand for the public good allow to identify preferences and the decision process up to...

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Partner selection in public goods experiments

Coricelli, Giorgio; Fehr, Dietmar; Fellner, Gerlinde - 2004

This paper studies the effect of introducing costly partner selection for the voluntary contribution to a public good. Subjects participate in six sequences of five rounds of a twoperson public good game in partner design. At the end of each sequence, subjects can select a new partner out of six...

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The Pivotal Mechanism Revisited: Some Evidence on Group Manipulation

Gantner, Anita; Höchtl, Wolfgang; Sausgruber, Rupert - 2011

This paper studies the vulnerability of the pivotal mechanism with respect to manipulation by groups. In a lab experiment, groups decide on the implementation of various alternatives, some of which imply opposite interests for the two subgroups. We investigate the occurrence of tacit and...

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Self-Insurance and Self-Protection as Public Goods

Schmidt, Ulrich; Robledo, Julio R.; Lohse, Tim - 2007

Many public goods like lighthouses and fire departments do not provide direct utility but act as insurance devices against shipwreck and destruction. They either diminish the size and/or the probability of the loss. We extend the public good model with this insurance aspect and generalize...

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On the role of budgeting in the delegated provision of public goods under asymmetric information

Krause, Günter - 2004

The present paper investigates the neglected topic of budgeting rules for public bureaucracies performing governmental activities within predetermined budgets under rules governing expenditure levels and composition. We analyze the optimal budgeting scheme, if the bureaucracy has superior...

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The Value of Non-Binding Announcements in Public Goods Experiments: some Theory and Experimental Evidence

Markwardt, Gunther; Dittrich, Marcus; Berlemann, Michael - 2004

In this paper we present three simple theoretical models to explain the influence of the possibility to make non-binding announcements on future investment behaviour in public good settings. Our models build on the idea that voluntary contributions to the supply of a public good might be...

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Korruption und Schattenwirtschaft

Thum, Marcel - 2005

Dieser Beitrag setzt sich mit dem Verhältnis von Schattenwirtschaft und Korruption auseinander. Es wird insbesondere die Frage untersucht, welche Rolle die Schattenwirtschaft in korrupten Ökonomien spielt. Die Schattenwirtschaft begrenzt letztendlich die Macht korrupter Institutionen, indem...

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