Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good: Continuous-Strategy Equilibria in the Private-Information Subscription Game

Stefano Barbieri and David A. Malueg ()

Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2008, vol. 10, issue 4, pages 529-545

Abstract: We reconsider Laussel and Palfrey's analysis of private provision of discrete public goods via the subscription game. We show their semi-regular equilibria do not exist, casting doubt on their efficiency analysis. Taking players' values for the public good as uniformly distributed on , we exhibit previously unrecognized continuous equilibria-those with contribution strategies strictly increasing up to their maximum values, not necessarily equal to the provision cost, c, at which point they become flat. We show piecewise-linear equilibria are not incentive efficient; and if and , then all symmetric equilibria are interim incentive inefficient. Copyright © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc..

Date: 2008

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