Public Goods

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Public Goods. Shyam Sunder, Yale University Kozminski Academy Warsaw, June 2 2 , 201 3. Public Goods. Perfect public goods Additional cost of providing the good for one more person is zero Non-payers cannot be excluded from the benefits of public goods Examples Clean air Public health

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Public Goods Shyam Sunder, Yale University Kozminski Academy Warsaw, June 22, 2013
Public Goods • Perfect public goods • Additional cost of providing the good for one more person is zero • Non-payers cannot be excluded from the benefits of public goods • Examples • Clean air • Public health • National defence • Security
The Problem • Who should pay for the cost of public goods and how?

Public goods

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Private Goods and Public Goods

Private Goods and Public Goods. This is a key distinction in “microeconomics” Why? Because private goods will be provided efficiently by the market, and public goods will not. Why not? --- That is our first subject today.

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PRIVATE GOODS AND PUBLIC GOODS

PRIVATE GOODS AND PUBLIC GOODS. What’s the difference between installing a new bathroom in a house and building a municipal sewage system? What’s the difference between growing wheat and fishing in the open ocean? In each case there is a basic difference in the

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Public Goods

Prerequisites. Almost essential Welfare and Efficiency. Public Goods. MICROECONOMICS Principles and Analysis Frank Cowell . August 2006. Public Goods. Overview. The basics. Efficiency . Characteristics of public goods. Contribution schemes. The Lindahl approach.

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Public Goods

Public Goods. Are goods with benefits that cannot be withheld from those who do not pay and are shared by large groups of consumers Usually made available politically through voting on how much to supply

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Public Goods

Public Goods. What are public goods?. Pure public goods are ones that when consumed by one person can be consumed in equal amounts by the remainder of society, and where the possibility of excluding others from consumption is impossible. Examples of public goods are: national defence ;

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Public Goods

Public Goods. Noah Thompson Brittany Madden Katy Watson. Vocabulary . Economic Stabilization: result of the governmental use of direct and indirect controls to maintain and stabilize the nations economy during emergences.

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PROVIDE PUBLIC GOODS

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Public Goods

Public Goods. A public good is one that is nonrival and nonexclusionary in consumption.

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Public Goods

Public Goods. Normative and Positive Perspective. Plan. Review: The First Welfare Theorem Public Goods definitions, examples practical problems with providing public goods. The First Welfare Theorem . If producers and consumers act as price takers; there is a market for every commodity;

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Public Goods

Public Goods. Definition: Goods that do not get used up when consumed. In other words, one person’s consumption of a good doesn’t reduce anyone else’s potential consumption of the same good.

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Public Goods

Public Goods. Public Goods Characteristics. Goods with benefits that cannot be withheld from those who do not pay and are shared by large groups of consumers are public goods Public goods are nonrival in consumption (your consumption does not diminish another’s)

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PUBLIC GOODS

PUBLIC GOODS. A pure public good is nonrival and nonexcludable in consumption; once the good is provided, the additional resource cost of another person consuming the good is zero. A private good is rival in consumption. Properties of public goods :

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PUBLIC GOODS

Varian, H., Intermediate Microeconomics , 5th Edition, Norton, 1999. Landsburg, S., Price Theory and Applications , 2th Edition, The Dryden Press, 1992. Stiglitz, J., Economics of the Public Sector , 2th Edition, Norton, 1988. PUBLIC GOODS. MICROECONOMICS Lecture 7th, November 7, 2003.

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PUBLIC GOODS

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Public Goods

Prerequisites. Almost essential Welfare and Efficiency. Public Goods. MICROECONOMICS Principles and Analysis Frank Cowell. August 2006. Public Goods. Overview. The basics. Efficiency. Characteristics of public goods. Contribution schemes. The Lindahl approach.

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Public Goods

Module. Micro: Econ:. 40. 76. Public Goods. KRUGMAN'S MICROECONOMICS for AP*. Margaret Ray and David Anderson. What you will learn in this Module :. How public goods are characterized and why markets fail to supply efficient quantities of public goods.

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Public Goods. Chapter 7. 7.1 Optimal Provision of Public Goods. 7.2 Private Provision of Public Goods. 7.3 Public Provision of Public Goods. 7.4 Conclusion. Optimal Provision of Public Goods. 7 . 1. Optimal Provision of Public Goods. 7 . 1. Optimal Provision of Private Goods.

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