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Pareto improving interventions in a general equilibrium model with private provision of public goods

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  • Antonio Villanacci
  • Ünal Zenginobuz

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Most of the literature on government intervention in models of voluntary public goods supply focuses on interventions that increase the total level of a public good, which is considered to be typically underprovided. However, an intervention that is successful in increasing the public good level need not benefit everyone. In this paper we take a direct approach to welfare properties of voluntary provision equilibria in a full blown general equilibrium model with public goods and study interventions that have the goal of Pareto improving on the voluntary provision outcome. Towards this end, we study a model with many private goods and nonlinear production technology for the public good, and hence allow for relative price effects to serve as a powerful channel of intervention. In this setup we show that Pareto improving interventions generally do exist. In particular, direct government provision financed by “small”, or “local”, lump-sum taxes can be used generically to Pareto improve upon the voluntary provision outcome.
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  • Antonio Villanacci & Ünal Zenginobuz, 2006. "Pareto improving interventions in a general equilibrium model with private provision of public goods," Review of Economic Design, Springer;Society for Economic Design, vol. 10(3), pages 249-271, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:reecde:v:10:y:2006:i:3:p:249-271
    DOI: 10.1007/s10058-006-0015-y
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    Keywords

    D51; D61; D62; H41; General equilibrium; Private provision of public goods; Paretoimproving interventions;
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    JEL classification:

    • D51 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Exchange and Production Economies
    • H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods

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