Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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957109 | Journal of Economic Theory | 2011 | 24 Pages |
Abstract
We study noncooperative household models with two agents and several voluntarily contributed public goods, deriving the counterpart to the Slutsky matrix and demonstrating the nature of the deviation of its properties from those of a true Slutsky matrix in the unitary model. We provide results characterising both cases in which there are and are not jointly contributed public goods. Demand properties are contrasted with those for collective models and conclusions drawn regarding the possibility of empirically testing the collective model against noncooperative alternatives and the noncooperative model against a general alternative.
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Authors
Valérie Lechene, Ian Preston,