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good economy, can also be used to provide a diagrammatical exposition of matching mechanisms and their effects on public … good supply and welfare. In particular, we describe, on the one hand, for which income distributions interior matching … equilibria result and, on the other hand, for which income distributions the agents voluntarily participate in a matching …
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-called matching approaches. Matching schemes are regarded as providing a promising approach to overcome under supply 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 analyze their effect …
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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 …
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We present a legislative bargaining model of the provision of a durable public good over an infinite horizion. In each period, there is a societal endowment which can either be invested in the public good or consumed. We characterize the optimal public policy, defined by the time path of...
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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 …
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We propose the minimum approval mechanism (MAM) for a standard linear public good environment with two players. Players simultaneously and privately choose their contributions to the public good in the first stage. In the second stage, they simultaneously decide whether to approve the other’s...
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In this paper, I characterize neutral mechanisms for the provision of a public good. I show that neutral mechanisms form a reasonable set of predictions for mechanism selection in public goods problems; such predictions are sufficiently sharp, robust to a perturbation of the information...
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The provision of public goods regularly embodies interrelated spheres of influence on multiple scales. This article examines the nature of human behavior in a multilevel social dilemma game with positive provision externalities to local and global scales. We report experimental results showing...
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funding is at a sub-optimal level under the discretionary rule. Consistent with the theory we find that proposers …
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