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On the Private Provision of Public Goods
(1986)
  • Ted Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Larry Blume, Cornell University
  • Hal R Varian
Abstract

This paper was stimulated by a paper by Peter Ware, who used calculus first-order conditons to show that a redistribution of income that does not change the set of voluntary contributors leaves the supply of public goods unchanged. In general, redistributions can change the set of contributors and also the supply of public goods. But we show that even in the general case there are some remarkably sharp comparative statics results.

Keywords
  • private provision of public goods,
  • Nash equilibrium,
  • invariance,
  • income redistribution
Publication Date
January 1, 1986
Citation Information
Ted Bergstrom, Larry Blume and Hal R Varian. "On the Private Provision of Public Goods" (1986)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ted_bergstrom/100/