Public Goods Theories and Evidence /

• Main Authors: Batina, Raymond G. (Author), Ihori, Toshihiro (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.
• Subjects: Public finance.; Economics.; Public Economics.

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...

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.