Public Goods Theories and Evidence

This book is a broad survey of the literature on public goods. There has been an explosion of research in the last ten years in a broad variety of - eas in this literature and the time seems right for a survey of this work. This includes the recent work on dynamic theories of public goods, s- ond-be...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Batina, Raymond G., Ihori, Toshihiro (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2005, 2005
Edition:1st ed. 2005
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • First-Best Public Provision of Pure Public Goods
  • Second-Best Public Provision of Pure Public Goods
  • Determining Demand for Public Goods: Voting and Mechanisms
  • Determining the Demand for Public Goods: Surveys and Indirect Estimation
  • Privately Provided Public Goods
  • Extensions
  • Neutrality Results
  • Empirical Evidence on Charitable Contributions
  • Further Evidence on Privately Provided Public Goods
  • Experimental Evidence on the Free Rider Problem
  • The Effect of Public Inputs on the Economy in Static Models
  • The Effects of Public Capital in Dynamic Models
  • Empirical Work on the Public Capital Hypothesis
  • Local Public Goods, Club Goods, and the Tiebout Hypothesis
  • Fiscal Competition
  • Empirical Testing with Local Public Goods