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Desmarais-Tremblay, Maxime - 2019

This paper discusses Judge Guido Calabresi's use of the concept of merit goods in his book The Future of Law and Economics (2016). It addresses the following questions: (1) What does Calabresi's conceptualisation of merit good share with the main lines of arguments in the literature for...

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The Normative Problem of Merit Goods in Perspective

Desmarais-Tremblay, Maxime - 2016

In his Theory of Public Finance (1959), Musgrave invented the concept of merit wants to describe public wants that are …

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Chapter 5 The Economic Theory of Gift-Giving: Perfect Substitutability of Transfers and Redistribution of Wealth

Mercier Ythier, Jean - In: Handbook of the economics of giving, altruism and …, (pp. 227-369). 2006

This chapter reviews the theory of the voluntary public and private redistribution of wealth elaborated by economic … analysis in the last forty years or so. The central object of the theory is altruistic gift-giving, construed as benevolent … voluntary redistribution of income or wealth. The theory concentrates on lump-sum voluntary transfers, individual or collective …

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Households, markets and public choice

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2014 - This Version: August 2014

sufficient conditions for the existence of competitive equilibria with endogenous household formation and public choice. …

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Information aggregation in democratic mechanisms

Britz, Volker; Gersbach, Hans - 2016 - This version: January 22, 2016

We examine whether and how democratic procedures can achieve socially desirable public good provision in the presence of profound uncertainty about the benefits of public goods, i.e., when citizens are able to identify the distribution of benefits only if they aggregate their private...

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The signaling role of charitable contributions by business : a tax policy perspective

Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; … - 2016

Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that characterizes the...

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The signaling role of corporate social responsibility

Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Sharoni, Adi - 2014

We examine the role of CSR as a mechanism for private provision of public goods. We argue that corporations are using CSR to signal high product quality and demonstrate that signaling gives rise to an excessive level of contributions that offsets the positive externality, which causes the...

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Charitable contributions by businesses : a tax policy perspective

Blumḳin, Tomer; Margaliyot, Yoram; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; … - 2019

Empirical evidence suggests that charitable contributions to public goods by businesses may be driven not only by the familiar warm-glow of giving motive but also as a means for businesses to signal high product quality. Building on this finding, we present an analytical framework that...

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Chapter 17 Contingent Valuation

Carson, Richard T.; Hanemann, W. Michael - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 2, Valuing …, (pp. 821-936). 2005

Value estimates for environmental goods can be obtained by either estimating preference parameters as revealed through behavior related to some aspect of the amenity or using stated information concerning preferences for the good. In the environmental economics literature the stated preference...

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How do voters respond to welfare vis-à-vis public good programs? : theory and evidence of political clientelism

Bardhan, Pranab K.; Mitra, Sandip; Mookherjee, Dilip; … - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 15 (2024) 3, pp. 655-697

Using rural household survey data from West Bengal, we find that voters respond positively to excludable government …

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