Image Concerns and the Political Economy of Publicly Provided Private Goods
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- Wagener, Andreas & Lausen, Tobias, 2017. "Image Concerns and the Political Economy of Publicly Provided Private Goods," Rationality and Competition Discussion Paper Series 9, CRC TRR 190 Rationality and Competition.
- König, Tobias & Lausen, Tobias & Wagener, Andreas, 2016. "Image concerns and the political economy of publicly provided private goods," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Market Behavior SP II 2016-214, WZB Berlin Social Science Center.
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Keywords
in-kind provision; status preferences; majority voting;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- H42 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Publicly Provided Private Goods
- D72 - Microeconomics - - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making - - - Political Processes: Rent-seeking, Lobbying, Elections, Legislatures, and Voting Behavior
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-CDM-2017-11-12 (Collective Decision-Making)
- NEP-POL-2017-11-12 (Positive Political Economics)
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