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Springer Public Goods Theories And Evidence 2005 Edition by Raymond G. Batina Toshihiro Ihori
A wide-ranging survey of the theory and evidence on public goods presenting the main literature on public goods both theoretical and empirical in a systematic manner. The breadth and depth of the book's coverage extends the existing literature in many ways. Table of contents : First-Best Public Provision of Pure Public Goods.- Second-Best Public Provision of Pure Public Goods.- Determining Demand for Public Goods: Voting and Mechanisms.- Determining the Demand for Public Goods: Surveys and Indirect Estimation.- Privately Provided Public Goods.- Extensions.- Neutrality Results.- Empirical Evidence on Charitable Contributions.- Further Evidence on Privately Provided Public Goods.- Experimental Evidence on the Free Rider Problem.- The Effect of Public Inputs on the Economy in Static Models.- The Effects of Public Capital in Dynamic Models.- Empirical Work on the Public Capital Hypothesis.- Local Public Goods Club Goods and the Tiebout Hypothesis.- Fiscal Competition.- Empirical Testing with Local Public Goods.