Public Goods, Club Goods, and the Measurement of Crowding
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Public Goods Club Goods and the Measurement of Crowding
The paper shows that some frequently used measures of the degree of public ness of publicly provided goods and club goods are seriously a ected by metrization problems The paper proposes measures that do not depend on arbitrary metriza tion conventions and discusses the relationship of these measures to the question of private provision and optimal club size Addresses of the authors send corres...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Urban Economics
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0094-1190
DOI: 10.1006/juec.1998.2112