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Non-cooperative Behavior and Efficient Provision of Public Goods

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  • Boadway, Robin
  • Pestieau, Pierre
  • Wildasin, David E

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The authors show that, on the basis of a noncooperative equilibrium whereby pure public goods are financed by voluntary private contributions, a centralized agency may induce an efficient solution by an appropriate choice of subsidy on the individuals' contributions. They also show that a noncooperative equilibrium with positive contributions is efficient if, and only if, the individual per unit subsidies sum to n - 1, where n is the number of individuals. They finally establish a correspondence between noncooperative and Lindahl equilibria.

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  • Boadway, Robin & Pestieau, Pierre & Wildasin, David E, 1989. "Non-cooperative Behavior and Efficient Provision of Public Goods," Public Finance = Finances publiques, , vol. 44(1), pages 1-7.
    • Handle: RePEc:pfi:pubfin:v:44:y:1989:i:1:p:1-7
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