location also benefit from a public good that enhances their productivity. The model predicts that in the competitive … positive effect of public goods in urban production. …

that regions and territories should be as basic element among the various levels of public administration and society …’s expectations on territorial base, culminating in a more effective way for public choices and priorities. …

facility management type (private for-profit, private nonprofit, public state-operated, and public county-operated) on …

This paper extends theory and experimentation in the context of two parties in a group who contribute to a public good … with a provision point. This study analyzes the voluntary contributions game in which a public good is provided if and only … examine their efficiency implications. In an experimental test of a public-goods problem with a threshold and rebate, the …

actions is perfect (perfect monitoring), noisy but public (public monitoring), and noisy and private (private monitoring). We … treatments. Specifically, we observe that the strategies are more complex under public and private monitoring than under perfect … forgiving than under public monitoring. …

. In a similar vein, public food procurement has also been used to promote a number of positive outcomes. There is growing … interest among countries and international institutions in using public food purchases to promote the integration of … smallholders into markets and strengthen rural livelihoods. Despite the expansion of public food procurement from smallholder …

Food Procurement Programmes (IFPPs)3 - are based on the premise that public institutions, when using their financial … needs by addressing additional social, environmental or economic needs that contribute to the overall public good of the … state (McCrudden 2004; De Schutter 2014; Kelly and Swensson 2017). In particular, public food procurement initiatives have …