Pools or Schools or Both? Diversification and Specialisation in Public Services

Tomas Cernenko, Oliver Rafaj and Daniel Dujava

No 20, Department of Economic Policy Working Paper Series from Department of Economic Policy, Faculty of National Economy, University of Economics in Bratislava

Abstract: We develop a model of two municipalities providing two public services. We show that in case of intermediate level of transferability of public services between two municipalities, Pareto-suboptimal Nash equilibrium exists. In this case, cooperation between municipalities or merging of two municipalities into one unit would improve welfare.

Keywords: diversification; game theory; public services; specialisation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C72 H11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 10 pages
Date: 2019
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