Title:
Public goods : theories and evidence
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Publication Information:
Berlin : Springer, 2005
ISBN:
9783540241744
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Summary
Summary
A wide-ranging survey of the theory and evidence on public goods, presenting the main literature on public goods, both theoretical and empirical, in a systematic manner. The breadth and depth of the book's coverage extends the existing literature in many ways.
Table of Contents
| Introduction |
| 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 Effect of Public Capital in Dynamic Models |
| Empirical Work on the Public Capital Hypothesis |
| Local Public Goods, Club Goods, and the Thiebout Hypothesis |
| Fiscal Competition |
| Empirical Testing with Local Public Goods |
