Arbeitspapier

Public-good provision, mechanism design and voting

We study the relation between mechanism design and voting in public-good provision. If incentive mechanisms must satisfy conditions of coalition-proofness and robustness, as well as individual incentive compatibility, the participants' contributions to public-good provision can only depend on the level of the public good that is provided and that level can only depend on the population shares of people favouring one level over another. For a public good that comes as a single indivisible unit the outcome depends on whether or not the share of votes in favour of provision exceeds a specified threshold. With more provision levels for the public good more complicated mechanisms can be used but they still involve the counting of votes rather than any measurement of the participants' willingness to pay. The paper thus provides a foundation for the use of voting mechanisms.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Preprints of the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods ; No. 2015/11

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design
Public Goods
Analysis of Collective Decision-Making: General
Welfare Economics: General
Thema
mechanism design
public-good provision
voting mechanisms

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Bierbrauer, Felix
Hellwig, Martin
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
(wo)
Bonn
(wann)
2015

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Bierbrauer, Felix
  • Hellwig, Martin
  • Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods

Entstanden

  • 2015

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