This paper formalises a three-tier administrative hierarchy. A benevolent federal government must decide how to fund an indivisible local public work, planned to be undertaken by a single firm. But the federal government observes neither the cost nor the local benefit of the project. To obtain...

Using a Principal-Agent framework, this paper analyzes a public good provision problem in which a central government tries to favor one of the regions or political reasons. We show how this favoritism leads the government to distort the allocation scheme compared to the benevolent case. We then...

Under a subscriber-supported television, specification should be viewed as a multidimensional problem. First, there is the traditional question how to allocate a number of channels -carried either by cable or satellite- among different program types. Second, there is the issue of packaging. What...