文档介绍:Lecture 15: public goods and externality
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Public goods
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Efficient provision of public goods
Public choice
Externality
What’s externality?
How to solute it?
What’s the efficient condition with externality.
Public goods
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Excludable
Non-excludable
Rival
Private goods
Regulated goods(?)
Non-rival
Club goods
Public goods
Public goods
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Excludability is the property problem
Rivality is the physical problem.
(1989), Public domain
Price determined by the property.
Public goods
Efficient provision of public goods
Discrete case:
xi : private goods
G: public goods
gi: i’s contribution to public goods
ui(G,xi), utility function
Public goods
Discrete case: benchmark
If providing the public goods will Pareto dominate non. So
ri: the reservation price of i.
Public goods
Then will get:
The sum of reservation price exceeds the cost of public goods, it’s efficient to provide the public goods.
Public goods
But, can private provide it?
Reflection function:
If:
Non cooperation equilibrium (0,0)
Public goods
Voting:
Public goods
Continuous case:
Social welfare function: