We demonstrate that both approaches are derived from the same basic formula. The problem can be stated as follows: Maximise U 1 (Q INTRODUCTION The public goods provision problem is undoubtedly one of the most celebrated economic problems. The two-type model of non-linear income taxation with asymmetric information on individual ability levels is extended to discuss welfare effects of two policy instruments: a pure public good and a publicly provided private good. This chapter uses shadow pricing rules developed in previous chapters to obtain the Samuelson (1954) condition for the optimal provision of pure public goods. Imagine that competitive markets exist for both the private and the public goods. Key Words: OptimalIncomeTaxation, PublicGoods, Public-Sector Pricing, Multidimensional Mechanism Design, … The standard approach highlights the importance of distortionary taxation and distributional concerns. Claus.Thustrup.Kreiner, Nicolaj.Verdelin Downloadable! 210 0 obj
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This video talks about what should be the optimal provision of Public goods, after defining what are public goods and differentiating them from private goods. That is, public goods provision should only be less (more) than the Samuelson rule predicts if high ability individuals have a higher (lower) marginal willingness to pay for the public good – when evaluated at a given earnings level. The public good, by definition is nonrival, consumption by one agent does not reduce it’s benefit to another agent, and nonexcludable, i.e., it is prohibitively expensive to keep public good provision Government expenditure is on Public Goods and Public Inputs (public factors of production, such as infrastructure). CESifo Working Paper no. KING* Department of Economics, London School of Economics, London WC2A 2AE, UK Received June 1985, revised version received April 1986 The integrated treatment of optimal taxation and public expenditure presented here is based on the dual … 4.8 Optimal Provision of Public Goods 4.9 Samuelson Rule 4.10 Free Rider Problem 4.11Private Provision of Public Goods 4.11.1 Private-Sector Underprovision: a Numerical Example. Samuelson (1954) pre-sented us with an elegant characterization of a socially optimal provision of private and public goods. Let the private good be the numeraire. endstream
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