The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-viii

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2. The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods: The Lifework of Richard Cornes

   • Wolfgang Buchholz, Dirk Rübbelke

   Pages 1-5

3. Efficiency in Contests Between Groups

   • Roger Hartley

   Pages 7-27

4. Multiple-Aggregate Games

   • Alex Dickson

   Pages 29-59

5. Strategic Coalition Formation in Global Public Good Provision

   • Wolfgang Buchholz, Michael Eichenseer

   Pages 61-84

6. Evolution of Consistent Conjectures in Semi-aggregative Representation of Games, with Applications to Public Good Games and Contests

   • Alex Possajennikov

   Pages 85-105

7. Mixed-Strategy Kant-Nash Equilibrium and Private Contributions to a Public Good

   • Ngo Van Long

   Pages 107-126

8. Social Creation of Pro-social Preferences for Collective Action

   • Avinash Dixit, Simon Levin

   Pages 127-143

9. Community Size and Public Goods in Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature

   • Simon Vicary

   Pages 145-161

10. Decentralized Leadership

    • Emilson Caputo Delfino Silva

    Pages 163-178

11. Debt Neutrality Without Altruism: Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods as ‘Operative Linkages’

    • Christian Haslbeck, Wolfgang Peters

    Pages 179-196

12. Counterterrorism: A Public Goods Approach

    • Todd Sandler

    Pages 197-218

13. Linguistic Assimilation and Ethno-religious Conflict

    • Indraneel Dasgupta

    Pages 219-242

14. International Carbon Trade and National Taxes: Distributional Impacts of Double Regulation

    • Thomas Eichner, Rüdiger Pethig

    Pages 243-269

15. Thinking Local but Acting Global? The Interplay Between Local and Global Internalization of Externalities

    • Karen Pittel, Dirk Rübbelke

    Pages 271-297

16. Showdown in Schönau: A Contest Case Study

    • Bouwe R. Dijkstra, Patrick R. Graichen

    Pages 299-326

This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods. The contributions employ new analytical techniques like the aggregative game approach, and discuss the philosophical underpinnings of the theory. Furthermore, they highlight a range of topical empirical applications including climate policy and counterterrorism. This contributed volume was written in memory of Richard C. Cornes, a pioneer in the theory of externalities and public goods.

• Public Goods
• Externalities
• Game Theory
• Richard C. Cornes
• Public Economics
• Social Choice and Welfare
• Public good allocation
• Counterterrorism

“The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Cornes provides a variety of state-of-the-art essays on the topics of public goods, contests, and clubs. It includes many real-world applications, such as to environmental policies and climate change. Professor Richard Cornes has had a tremendous and far-reaching intellectual influence, so it is not surprising that the book contains several outstanding contributions.” (Nizar Allouch, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 56 (4), December, 2018)​

• Institute of Economics and Econometrics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

  Wolfgang Buchholz

• Chair for Economics Especially Resource Economics, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

  Dirk Rübbelke

Wolfgang Buchholz has studied Mathematics, Economics and Political Science at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen, where he got his Ph.D. in Economics in 1982 and finished his Habilitation in 1987. In 1988 he became an associate professor of economics at the University of Regensburg. After an interplay as a professor at the newly founded European University in Frankfurt (Oder) between 1992 and 1996 he returned to Regensburg – now as a full professor of pubic economics. His main fields of research are international environmental economics, the theory of public goods, intertemporal evaluation and discounting, social protection and distribution policy and the links between economics and ethics.

Dirk T.G. Rübbelke is Professor of Economics at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. Before he joined Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, he was IKERBASQUE Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (2010-2014), Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (2008-2010) and Juniorprofessor at Chemnitz University of Technology (2002-2008). He is also Research Associate at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim and Fellow Member in the CESifo Research Network, Munich. Prof. Rübbelke did research and taught at internationally renowned universities and research centres. These are, inter alia, Australian National University in Canberra, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jadavpur University in Kolkata, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich and University of Nottingham. He has published in internationally renowned journals such as Climatic Change, Economica, Economics Letters, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Resource and Energy Economics, and World Economy.

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