Optimal Altruism in Public Good Provision
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Keywords
Altruism; climate policy; crowding out; public goods;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- D03 - Microeconomics - - General - - - Behavioral Microeconomics: Underlying Principles
- H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
- H41 - Public Economics - - Publicly Provided Goods - - - Public Goods
- Q58 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Government Policy
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-ENV-2014-02-08 (Environmental Economics)
- NEP-EXP-2014-02-08 (Experimental Economics)
- NEP-MIC-2014-02-08 (Microeconomics)
- NEP-PUB-2014-02-08 (Public Finance)
- NEP-RES-2014-02-08 (Resource Economics)
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