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A Test for Efficiency in the Supply of Public Goods
Department of Economics, UCSB (1988)
  • Ted Bergstrom, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • Judith Roberts
  • Daniel Rubinfeld
  • Perry Shapiro,
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Abstract

This paper conducts an empirical test of whether local governments spend more or less than a Pareto optimal amount on local public goods. Our procedure is to check whether the Samuelson first order conditions ) for efficient provision of public goods are satisfied.

Keywords
  • public goods,
  • efficiency,
  • Samuelson condition
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Publication Date
March, 1988
Citation Information
Ted Bergstrom, Judith Roberts, Daniel Rubinfeld and Perry Shapiro. "A Test for Efficiency in the Supply of Public Goods" Department of Economics, UCSB Vol. 35 (1988)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/ted_bergstrom/81/