The Trouble With Groves: Revisiting the Classical Pure Public Good Problem

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Athanasiou Efthymios ◽  
Giacomo Valletta
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Pure Public Good ◽  
Good Problem

Pareto-Improving Redistribution and Pure Public Goods

2000 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Cornes ◽  
Todd Sandler
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Intervention ◽  
Public Good Provision ◽  
Large Aggregate ◽  
The Public ◽  
Pure Public Good ◽  
Comparative Static Analysis ◽  
Good Provision ◽  
Pareto Improving

Abstract In the pure public good model, the Nash equilibrium associated with one initial income distribution may Pareto dominate the equilibrium associated with another distribution of the same aggregate income. We explore this possibility and examine its implications for Pareto-improving policy intervention by undertaking a comparative static analysis of Pareto-improving tax-financed increases in pure public good provision. Under some circumstances, a government can engineer policies that raise public good provision while increasing the well-being of contributors and noncontributors. Crucial factors promoting this outcome involve a large number of noncontributors, a high marginal valuation for the public good by non-contributors and a large aggregate response of contributors to changes in their income.

Stable Provision vs. Cournot-Nash Equilibria in Pure Public Good Economies

2001 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benyamin Shitovitz ◽  
Menahem Spiegel
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Nash Equilibria ◽  
Pure Public Good

Is national defense a pure public good?

1990 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian L. Goff ◽  
Robert D. Tollison
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
National Defense ◽  
Pure Public Good

The Simple Analytics of Pure Public Good Provision

Economica ◽  
1985 ◽  
Vol 52 (205) ◽  
pp. 103 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Cornes ◽  
Todd Sandler
Keyword(s):  
Public Good ◽  
Public Good Provision ◽  
Pure Public Good ◽  
Good Provision
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