A constitutional theory of public goods

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Constitutional choice determines public from private goods, contrary to the conventional definition of public goods which identifies a class of goods which the market cannot provide. Utility interdependence in consumption is the basis of individuals in choosing what good should be provided publicly at the constitutional level. While a constitutional theory of public goods provides a stronger rationale than the conventional market failure theory, it has some policy implications: there should be a strong definition of public powers and institutional designs should be made more carefully.

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Anonymity and the voluntary provision of public goods

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Experimental research on the voluntary provision of public goods show that participants allocate some of their resources to these goods when the full-information noncooperative equilibrium is zero provision of the public good. It is investigated whether the difference in empirical findings and the Nash prediction is due to lack of anonymity.

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Only for my own neighborhood? Preferences and voluntary provision of local and global public goods

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According to experiments, when contributions to global goods has a higher per capita return, people contribute more to the global good and the same amount to a group good.

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