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On the neutrality of redistribution in a general equilibrium model with public goods

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Villanacci, Antonio
Zenginobuz, Unal

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Models on private provision of public goods typically involve a single private good and linear production technology for the public good. We study a model with several private goods and non-linear (strictly concave) production technology. We revisit the question of “neutrality” of government interventions on equilibrium outcomes and show that relative price effects that are absent with a single private good and linear production technology become a powerful channel of redistribution in this case. Contrary to previous results, redistributing endowments in favor of contributors is shown to be neither necessary nor sufficient for increasing the equilibrium level of public good.

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Paper provided by University Library of Munich, Germany in its series MPRA Paper with number 190.

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Date of creation: 05 May 2001
Date of revision: 09 Aug 2005
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Keywords: public goods private provision neutrality results general equilibrium

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D51 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Exchange and Production Economies
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  2. Villanacci, Antonio & Zenginobuz, Unal, 2005. "Subscription equilibria with public production: Existence and regularity," MPRA Paper 132, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 21 Sep 2006. [Downloadable!]
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  9. Atsushi Kajii & Antonio Villanacci & Alessandro Citanna, 1998. "Constrained suboptimality in incomplete markets: a general approach and two applications," Economic Theory, Springer, vol. 11(3), pages 495-521. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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  1. Villanacci, Antonio & Zenginobuz, Unal, 2005. "Subscription equilibria with public production: Existence and regularity," MPRA Paper 132, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 21 Sep 2006. [Downloadable!]
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  2. Villanacci, Antonio & Zenginobuz, Unal, 2004. "Pareto improving interventions in a general equilibrium model with private provision of public goods," MPRA Paper 183, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 07 Jun 2006. [Downloadable!]
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