On the Private Provision of Public Goods

Ted Bergstrom (), Lawrence Blume () and Hal Varian ()

No 1986B, University of California at Santa Barbara, Economics Working Paper Series from Department of Economics, UC Santa Barbara

Abstract: This paper was stimulated by a paper by Peter Ware, who used calculus first-order conditons to show that a redistribution of income that does not change the set of voluntary contributors leaves the supply of public goods unchanged. In general, redistributions can change the set of contributors and also the supply of public goods. But we show that even in the general case there are some remarkably sharp comparative statics results.

Keywords: private provision of public goods; Nash equilibrium; invariance; income redistribution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1986-01-01
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