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Pareto improving interventions in a general equilibrium model with private provision of public goods

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Villanacci, Antonio
Zenginobuz, Unal

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Most of the literature on government intervention in models of voluntary public goods supply focuses on interventions that increase the total level of a public good, which is considered to be typically underprovided. However, an intervention that is successful in increasing the public good level need not benefit everyone. In this paper we take a direct approach to welfare properties of voluntary provision equilibria in a full blown general equilibrium model with public goods and study interventions that have the goal of Pareto improving on the voluntary provision outcome. Towards this end, we study a model with many private goods and nonlinear production technology for the public good, and hence allow for relative price effects to serve as a powerful channel of intervention. In this setup we show that Pareto improving interventions generally do exist. In particular, direct government provision financed by “small”, or “local”, lump-sum taxes can be used generically to Pareto improve upon the voluntary provision outcome.

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Date of creation: 15 Dec 2004
Date of revision: 07 Jun 2006
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Keywords: general equilibrium; private provision of public goods; Pareto improving interventions;

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D51 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Exchange and Production Economies
H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods

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  1. Villanacci, Antonio & Zenginobuz, Unal, 2001. "On the neutrality of redistribution in a general equilibrium model with public goods," MPRA Paper 190, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 09 Aug 2005. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Antonio Villanacci & Ünal Zenginobuz, 2006. "Pareto improving interventions in a general equilibrium model with private provision of public goods," Review of Economic Design, Springer, vol. 10(3), pages 249-271, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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