Do Hegemons Distribute Private Goods?

Do Government Subsidies Increase the Private Supply of Public Goods?

We study three different models in which public goods are supplied by private contributions. In one of these models, tax-financed government subsidies to private contributions will definitely increase the equilibrium supply of public goods. In the other two models, government subsidies are neutralized by offsetting changes in private contributions. We explain why it is that these models lead to...

On - line Routing for Virtual Private Networks ( Draft : Do not distribute )

Today, large telecommunications customers are increasingly using virtual private networks to link geographically dispersed sites. A virtual private network is provided by provision-ing a set of permanent (long term) virtual circuits between customer endpoints on a large backbone network. This paper considers the problem of routing a set of permanent virtual circuit requests over a backbone netw...

Public Supply of Private Goods

Public Provision of Private Goods

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Stackelberg Scheduling Strategies (DRAFT – DO NOT DISTRIBUTE)

We study the problem of optimizing the performance of a system shared by selfish, noncooperative users. We consider the concrete setting of scheduling jobs on a set of shared machines with loaddependent latency functions specifying the length of time necessary to complete a job; we measure system performance by the total latency of the system. Assigning jobs according to the selfish interests o...