This paper studies individual behavior within a group when there is rent-seeking and groups compete in the selection of a public good - a variant of the traditional public goods problem. The situation is different from traditional public goods because an individual may not receive no reward for...

This paper describes a new method of utility pricing - Variable Unit Pricing (VUP) - that results in both economic efficiency and cost recovery for a variety of supply situations faced by water utilities. The main advantage of VUP - compared to Increasing Block Rates - is that its parameters can...