Decentralization of Pareto optima in economies with public projects, nonessential private goods and convex costs (☆)

Robert P. Gilles, Suzanne Scotchmer and Dimitrios Diamantaras
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Robert P. Gilles: Department of Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA

Economic Theory, 1996, vol. 8, issue 3, 555-564

Abstract: In the theory of economies with public goods one usually considers the case in which private goods are essential, i.e., each agent receives a fixed minimum level of utility if he consumes no private goods, irrespective of the public goods consumed. This paper develops the second welfare theorem for economies with public projects and possibly inessential private goods. As a corollary we also derive conditions under which valuation equilibria exist.

JEL-codes: D61 H41 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
Note: Received:June 15, 1994; revised version September 15, 1995
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