When providing public goods through voluntary contributions, a donor may introduce unilateral matching in order to reduce underprovision of the public good and thus inefficiency. By itself, however, matching benefits the donor but harms the recipient. We apply Cornes and Hartley's aggregative...

It is known that a Lindahl equilibrium is not necessarily Pareto-superior to the non-cooperative Cournot-Nash outcome. This paper derives conditions under which the Lindahl Pareto-dominates the Cournot-Nash solution. We show that all are better off in the Lindahl equilibrium as compared to the...