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The purity of impure public goods
Author(s) -
Brumme Anja,
Buchholz Wolfgang,
Rübbelke Dirk
Publication year - 2023
Publication title -
journal of public economic theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.809
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1467-9779
pISSN - 1097-3923
DOI - 10.1111/jpet.12626
Subject(s) - public good , comparative statics , economics , perspective (graphical) , microeconomics , nash equilibrium , public economics , mathematical economics , computer science , artificial intelligence
In this paper, we provide a new perspective on the links between the analysis of the voluntary provision of pure and impure public goods. In particular, it is shown that the impure public good model can be transformed into a pure public good one. This innovative method not only leads to new comparative statics results, but also provides new insights on the impure public good model, for example, on causes of the nonneutrality of income transfers with regard to Nash equilibria in the impure public good case.