Public-Good Productivity Differentials and Non-Cooperative Public-Good Provision

Eduardo Ley

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Abstract: We explore the generality of Konrad and Lommerud (1995)'s Rotten Spouse Theorem. While the result holds for an arbitrary number of agents, it fails to hold for general technologies. We discuss some of the implications for CO2-emissions models.

Keywords: Rotten Spouse; CO2 abatement; climate change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q20 H4 D62 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996-11-25, Revised 1997-05-28
Note: Type of Document - Textures 1.7; prepared on MacOS 7.5.3; Adobe Acrobat 3 PDF; pages: 9; figures: included.
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