In this paper, we study how between-group wealth and size heterogeneity affect success probabilities as well as aggregate rent-seeking efforts when two groups compete for the allocation of a pure public good. Unlike with previous models, we measure the utility cost of rent-seeking in terms of...

Several authors have investigated the bounds of the so-called neutrality theorem where public goods are privately provided. Following this line of analysis, I investigate further in this paper the bounds of this result. I concentrate on an unexplored case in the existing literature — namely...

This paper proposes and analyzes an unexplored mechanism through which increases in income taxes — understood as increases in either marginal tax rates or tax progressivity — might positively affect the degree of political accountability (PA), and consequently, the provision of public goods...