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Welfare Analysis of the Number and Locations of Local Public Facilities

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Marcus Berliant (Washington University in St. Louis)
Shin-Kun Peng (Academia Sinica & National Taiwan University)
Ping Wang (Washington University in St. Louis & NBER)

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We develop a model with a finite number of households and congestable local public goods where the level of provision, the number of facilities and their locations are all endogenously determined. We prove that an equal-treatment identical-provision second-best optimum exists, where all households are required to reach the same utility level, the provision of local public good is required to be the same at all facilities, and all facilities must serve the same number of consumers. Such an optimal public facility configuration may be concentrated (single site) or dispersed (multiple sites), depending on congestability, commuting cost and the household preference parameters.

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Date of creation: 29 Jul 2004
Date of revision: 20 Jul 2005
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Keywords: Congestable Local Public Goods; Optimal Public Facility Configurations;

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H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
R13 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - General Equilibrium and Welfare Economic Analysis of Regional Economies
D61 - Microeconomics - - Welfare Economics - - - Allocative Efficiency; Cost-Benefit Analysis

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