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https://hdl.handle.net/2115/30280

Private Provision of Public Goods between Families

英語

family

2007-12-18

Graduate School of Economics and Business Administration, Hokkaido University

Discussion Paper, Series A

194

1-30

We consider a two-stage voluntary provision model where individuals in a family contribute to inter-family public goods, and, at the same time, the parent makes private transfers to her child within the same family. We show not only that Warr’s neutrality holds regardless of the different timings of parent-to-child transfers, but also that there is a continuum of Nash equilibria in the sense that individuals’ contributions and parental transfers are indeterminate, although the allocation of each’s private consumption and total public good provision is uniquely determined. We further show that, in the presence of impure altruism, neutrality and uniqueness of the equilibrium allocation persist.

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