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rivalry in consumption of the publicly provided good. We identify three sources of welfare loss from decentralization … characteristics of the publicly provided good are an important determinant for the welfare costs of decentralization. …
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We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...
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lump-sum transfers. Global public goods are considered both as consumption and production goods, and the theory is also …
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We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011568762
Altruism or `regard for others' can encourage self-restraint among generators of negative externalities, thereby … mitigating the externality problem. We explore how introducing impure altruism into standard regulatory settings alters … welfare is increasing in the propensity for altruism in the population; under price-based regulation the relationship is non …
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concern for other people's welfare (altruism) in the process of making high profits. Even when there exist few truly … such pooling equilibria exist is smaller and firms are more likely to anger voters by displaying low levels of altruism. As …
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In this paper, the author analyzes the behavior of local governments in capital taxation when the financial choices in terms of the quality of public goods are made done by a central planner. More specifically, he asks the question of whether a local government has an interest in taxing the...
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When deciding on the social desirability of public investment, the cost of a project is sometimes adjusted by a factor known as the Marginal Cost of Public Funds (MCPF) which captures the cost of raising public funds through distortionary taxation. However, there is no scholarly consensus on...
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This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a simple model to capture the various mechanisms that are discussed in the theoretical literature on collective action. We use the model to illustrate the special assumptions embedded...
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