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Public Goods

Theories and Evidence

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Authors:
  1. Raymond G. Batina

    1. Department of Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

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  2. Toshihiro Ihori

    1. Department of Economics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  • Extensive coverage of the theory and empirical evidence on public goods

  • In-depth insight into the development of the literature in this field

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XVI
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-8

  3. First-Best Public Provision of Pure Public Goods

    Pages 9-28

  4. Second-Best Public Provision of Pure Public Goods

    Pages 29-51

  5. Determining Demand for Public Goods: Voting and Mechanisms

    Pages 53-76

  6. Determining the Demand for Public Goods: Surveys and Indirect Estimation

    Pages 77-97

  7. Privately Provided Public Goods

    Pages 99-114

  8. Extensions

    Pages 115-134

  9. Neutrality Results

    Pages 135-154

  10. Empirical Evidence on Charitable Contributions

    Pages 155-179

  11. Further Evidence on Privately Provided Public Goods

    Pages 181-203

  12. Experimental Evidence on the Free Rider Problem

    Pages 205-231

  13. The Effect of Public Inputs on the Economy in Static Models

    Pages 233-250

  14. The Effects of Public Capital in Dynamic Models

    Pages 251-270

  15. Empirical Work on the Public Capital Hypothesis

    Pages 271-298

  16. Local Public Goods, Club Goods, and the Tiebout Hypothesis

    Pages 299-325

  17. Fiscal Competition

    Pages 327-352

  18. Empirical Testing with Local Public Goods

    Pages 353-370

  19. Back Matter

    Pages 371-421
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About this book

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-best financing methods, surveys and contingent valuation in determ- ing the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for public goods, voting models, p- vately produced public goods, charity and national radio, experiments on public goods, public inputs, public capital and infrastructure, the Tiebout sorting mechanism, local public goods (LPGs), club goods, and fiscal competition and coordination. We survey developments in the theory and the empirical work in each area. We also present the classic results to place the new developments in context. This book is appropriate for advanced undergraduates, graduate students who wish to learn the latest research in this area, and for practitioners who want to broaden their knowledge outside their own area of expertise. We present the background for each result and try to give the reader a feel for how a particular area of the literature developed. The technical results are provided and an intuitive explanation for them is also given. We also p- sent some new results in many of the chapters as well. Each chapter is r- sonably self-contained.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Economics, Washington State University, Pullman, USA

    Raymond G. Batina

  • Department of Economics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Toshihiro Ihori

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Public Goods

  • Book Subtitle: Theories and Evidence

  • Authors: Raymond G. Batina, Toshihiro Ihori

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-27638-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Business and Economics, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-24174-4Published: 09 May 2005

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-06335-0Published: 14 October 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-27638-8Published: 19 January 2006

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 422

  • Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Public Economics

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