In our previous paper, "Optimal Allocation of Public Goods...," [5] we presented a mechanism for determining efficient public goods allocations when preferences are unknown and consumers are free to misrepresent their demands for public goods. We proved the basic welfare theorem for this model: If consumers are competitive in markets for private goods and follow Nash behavior in their choice of demands to report to the mechanism, then equilibria will be Pareto optimal. In this paper we show this result is not vacuous by proving that an equilibria will be Pareto optimal. In this paper we show this result is not vacuous by proving that an equilibrium will exist for a wide class of economies. Our conditions are slightly stronger than those required to prove the existence of a Lindahl equilibrium. In order to rule out the possibility of bankruptcy, we assume additionally that at all Pareto optimal allocations, private goods consumption is bounded away from zero.
MLA
Ledyard, John O., and Theodore Groves. “The Existence of Efficient and Incentive Compatible Equilibria with Public Goods.” Econometrica, vol. 48, .no 6, Econometric Society, 1980, pp. 1487-1506, https://www.jstor.org/stable/1912820
Chicago
Ledyard, John O., and Theodore Groves. “The Existence of Efficient and Incentive Compatible Equilibria with Public Goods.” Econometrica, 48, .no 6, (Econometric Society: 1980), 1487-1506. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1912820
APA
Ledyard, J. O., & Groves, T. (1980). The Existence of Efficient and Incentive Compatible Equilibria with Public Goods. Econometrica, 48(6), 1487-1506. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1912820
We are deeply saddened by the passing of Kate Ho, the John L. Weinberg Professor of Economics and Business Policy at Princeton University and a Fellow of the Econometric Society. Kate was a brilliant IO economist and scholar whose impact on the profession will resonate for many years to come.
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