Democracy, Redistributive Taxation and the Private Provision of Public Goods

With a binding minimum wage for the low-ability type, on the other hand, there is no direct additional effect of outsourcing on the marginal labor income tax rate implemented for

Until recently, these subfields have mostly been studied separately and relations between them have been little explored: The theory of public-goods provision focusses on

In economies with private goods, Hurwicz (1972) assumes that the mechanism designer must allow the agents a ‘no-trade’ option, which leads naturally to the individual

To illustrate the tractability of our framework, we will now revisit the model of optimal income taxation and public good provision that was introduced in Section 3.1, and which

In the second stage of our analysis, we proceed with examining the mechanisms of how poor quality of government disrupts the positive effects of democracy on people’s access to

A strong case for public provision of certain private goods has been established for an economy in which individuals have homogeneous preferences but differ in skill levels..

If we consider the same citizens’ preferences for local and central public goods and private good, the different levels of competition can be used to determine the efficient amount

In the case of a pure public good, which corresponds to a complete network structure of interactions, Bergstrom, Blume, and Varian [6] rely on the assumption of normality of private