Optimal Spatial Distribution of Differentiated Local Public Goods

Local Public Goods and Clubs1

Spatial dynamics of ecological public goods.

The production, consumption, and exploitation of common resources ranging from extracellular products in microorganisms to global issues of climate change refer to public goods interactions. Individuals can cooperate and sustain common resources at some cost or defect and exploit the resources without contributing. This generates a conflict of interest, which characterizes social dilemmas: Indi...

Spatial dilemmas of diffusible public goods

The emergence of cooperation is a central question in evolutionary biology. Microorganisms often cooperate by producing a chemical resource (a public good) that benefits other cells. The sharing of public goods depends on their diffusion through space. Previous theory suggests that spatial structure can promote evolution of cooperation, but the diffusion of public goods introduces new phenomena...

Distribution-neutral provision of public goods

The paper describes a normative approach to budget incidence, given the provision of a public good. The objective is to balance the budget by an income tax such that the budget is distribution-neutral. This property requires that every consumer’s net welfare gain, i.e. the benefit from consuming the public good and the tax burden in financing it, does not change the inequality inherent in the i...

Effect of depreciation of the public goods in spatial public goods games

Dong-Mei Shi , Yong Zhuang, and Bing-Hong Wang 3† Department of Modern Physics and Nonlinear Science Center, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei Anhui, 230026, PR China Department of Physics, Bohai University, Jinzhou Liaoning, 121000, PR China The Research Center for Complex System Science, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology and Shanghai Academy of System Scienc...