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Bargaining over public goods

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In a simple public good economy, we propose a natural bargaining procedure whose equilibria converge to Lindahl allocations as the cost of bargaining vanishes. The procedure splits the decision over the allocation in a decision about personalized prices and a decision about output levels for the public good. Since this procedure does not assume price-taking behavior, it provides a strategic foundation for the personalized taxes inherent to the Lindahl solution to the public goods problem

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  • Julio Davila & Jan Eeckhout & César Martinelli, 2008. "Bargaining over public goods," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne b08041, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
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    1. Wolfgang Buchholz & Richard Cornes & Dirk Rübbelke, 2020. "Matching in the Kolm triangle: interiority and participation constraints of matching equilibria," Journal of Economic Studies, Emerald Group Publishing, vol. 47(5), pages 1039-1050, April.
    2. Anne van den Nouweland & Agnieszka Rusinowska, 2020. "Bargaining foundation for ratio equilibrium in public‐good economies," Journal of Public Economic Theory, Association for Public Economic Theory, vol. 22(2), pages 302-319, April.
    3. Matthew Elliott & Benjamin Golub, 2019. "A Network Approach to Public Goods," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 127(2), pages 730-776.
    4. Dijkstra, Bouwe R. & Nentjes, Andries, 2020. "Pareto-Efficient Solutions for Shared Public Good Provision: Nash Bargaining versus Exchange-Matching-Lindahl," Resource and Energy Economics, Elsevier, vol. 61(C).

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    Keywords

    Public goods; bargaining; alternating offers;

    JEL classification:

    • C78 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Game Theory and Bargaining Theory - - - Bargaining Theory; Matching Theory
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods

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