The Overprovision Anomaly of Private Public Good Supply

Journal of Economics/ Zeitschrift fur Nationalokonomie

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 63-78

  Buchholz, Wolfgang ^a   Peters, Wolfgang ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY VIADRINA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cost share equilibria; Lindahl prices; Overprovision of public goods; Subscription equilibria; Warr neutrality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346607112     PISSN: 09318658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01231216     Document Type: Article

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