Contests, private provision of public goods and evolutionary stability

- The private provision of public goods can be incentivized by a contest.
- Evolutionary stability of public goods game with contest is studied.
- If evolutionary stability and Nash equilibrium coincide, the outcome is efficient.

We study evolutionary stability for public goods games incentivized by a contest. In a quasi-linear setting, we derive conditions such that evolutionary stability, Nash equilibrium and efficient solution coincide.