Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Title: Group size and free riding when private and public goods are gross substitutes
Author-Name: Thomas Gaube
Author-Email: thomas.gaube@wiwi.uni-bonn.de
Classification-JEL: H41
Keywords: private provision of public goods, group size
Abstract: Using the traditional model of voluntary public good provision, 
	it is shown that an expansion of group size exacerbates free riding 
	tendencies as long as private consumption and the public good are 
	strictly normal and weak gross substitutes. This result 
	generalizes a previous Cobb-Douglas example with respect to 
	preferences and asymmetric equilibria.
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Length: 7
Creation-Date: 1999-12	 
Revision-Date: 2000-05
File-URL: http://www.wiwi.uni-bonn.de/bgsepapers/bonedp/bgse13_2000.pdf
File-Format: application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:bon:bonedp:bgse13_2000