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—i.e., principal-agent frictions or un-internalized externalities in an environment of risk neutrality—are flawed. Even where risk is …/agencies) can be justified if private lenders are risk averse and because of the state’s comparative advantage over markets in … resolving the collective action frictions that hinder risk spreading. To exploit this advantage while keeping moral hazard in …
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risk-dominance to select the leading government. Lastly, in the mixed case, the government for whom public goods are …
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We explored experimentally how threshold uncertainty affects coordination success in a threshold public goods game. Whereas all groups succeeded in providing the public good when the exact value of the threshold was known, uncertainty was generally detrimental for the public good provision. The...
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We explored experimentally how threshold uncertainty affects coordination success in a threshold public goods game. Whereas all groups succeeded in providing the public good when the exact value of the threshold was known, uncertainty was generally detrimental for the public good provision. The...
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sufficient to determine both compensated and the total, uncompensated effects of an increase in risk on the voluntary provision …
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We study a large economy model in which individuals have private information about their productive abilities and their preferences. Moreover, there is aggregate uncertainty so that the social benefits from taxation and public goods provision are a priori unknown. The analysis is based on a...
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The paper studies efficient public-good provision in a model with private values whose distribution depends on a macro shock; conditionally on this shock, values are independent and identically distributed. A generalization of the Bayesian mechanism of d'Aspremont and Gérard-Varet is shown to...
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