Time, Self-Selection and User Charges for Public Goods

Dan Anderberg, Fredrik Andersson and Alessandro Balestrino

No 269246, Economic Research Papers from University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Abstract: Many public goods generate utility only when combined with a time-input. Important examples include road networks and publicly provided leisure facilities. If it is possible to charge for the time spent using the public good it is generally a second-best Pareto optimal policy to do so even in the absence of congestion. An optimal linear user charge is analysed within a standard optimum income-tax framework. Second-best public good provision in the presence of a user charge is also characterized and factors that in‡uence the direction of optimal distortion of the public good supply are identi…ed.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Public Economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 18
Date: 1998-11-11
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.269246

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