Die Arbeit untersucht die Aufteilung eines Budgets auf mehrere öffentliche Güter mittels einer Abstimmung. Hierzu werden Verfahren betrachtet, unter denen jeder Agent eine Budgetaufteilung vorschlägt und dann aus diesen Vorschlägen eine Aufteilung (Allokation) bestimmt wird. Von besonderem...

Ausgehend vom theoretischen Teil dieser Arbeit wurden in diesem Kapitel kurzAnsätze migrationspolitischer Konsequenzen skizziert. Dabei wurde einleitendfür Deutschland herausgearbeitet, dass die öffentlichen Haushalte zugunsten derZuwanderer und auf Kosten der Einheimischen wirken. Bei der...

The literature of private provision of public goods suggests thatincentive to contribute is inversely related to group size. This paperempirically tests this relationship using field data from ChineseWikipedia, an online encyclopedia. We exploit an exogenous reduction ingroup size as a result of...

[This item is a preserved copy. To view the original, visit http://econtheory.org/] The provision of public goods under asymmetric information has most oftenbeen viewed as a mechanism design problem under the aegis of an uninformedmediator. This paper focuses on institutional contexts without...

In Chapter 2, we present a model that allows us to study the effect ofincreased competition among charities for donations, and show that it willresult in a lower provision of public goods. When charities get donations,they must pay two fundraising costs: a travel cost and an extra cost,...

We examine the impact of scal policy on macroeconomic performance when public goods play a dual role by simultaneously providing both productive and utility services to the private sector. When these services are subject to congestion, a consumption tax is distortionary, generating a dynamic...

We examine the impact of scal policy on macroeconomic performance when public goods play a dual role by simultaneously providing both productive and utility services to the private sector. When these services are subject to congestion, a consumption tax is distortionary, generating a dynamic...