When do Cost Differentials among Privately Provided Public Goods make Income Transfer Policy Effective?

Nobuo Akai (akai@kobeuc.ac.jp)
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Nobuo Akai: Kobe University of Commerce

Economics Bulletin, 2003, vol. 8, issue 14, 1-7

Abstract: Some papers have disputed when cost differentials among privately provided public goods make income transfer policy effective. This paper clarifies the different assumptions underlying this disputation and shows that original cost equalization is a necessary and sufficient condition to hold the transfer neutrality.

Keywords: artificial; cost; differential (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H4 H7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-10-29
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