Democracy, redistributive taxation and the private provision of public goods

Public goods provision, redistributive taxation, and wealth accumulation ¬リニ

Public Goods Provision , Inequality and Taxes ∗

The impact of redistributive policies on voluntary contributions is still not well understood. While a higher level of redistributive taxation decreases the price of voluntary giving, it also changes the income distribution by decreasing income inequality. This paper provides a controlled laboratory experiment to investigate the net impact of the tax rate on public goods provision. The experime...

Toward an efficiency rationale for the public provision of private goods

Public provision of a private goods is justified on efficiency grounds in a modelwith no redistributive preferences. A government’s involvement in the provision of a private good generates information about preferences that facilitatesmore efficient revenue extraction for the provision of public goods. Public provision of the private good improves economic efficiency under a condition that is a...

Optimal Income Taxation, Public-Goods Provision and Public-Sector Pricing: A Contribution to the Foundations of Public Economics

The paper develops an integrated model of optimal nonlinear income taxation, public-goods provision and pricing in a large economy. With asymmetric information about labour productivities and publicgoods preferences, the multidimensional mechanism design problem becomes tractable by requiring renegotiation proofness of the final allocation of private goods and admission tickets for excludable p...

The cost of segregation in (social) networks

This paper investigates the private provision of public goods in segregated societies. While most research agrees that segregation undermines public goods provision the findings are mixed for private provision: social interactions, being strong within groups and limited across groups, may either increase or impede voluntary contributions. Surprisingly, very little light is shed in the literatur...