The provision and pricing of excludable public goods: Ramsey-Boiteux Pricing versus bundling
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This paper studies the relation between Bayesian mechanism design and the Ramsey-Boiteux approach to the provision and pricing of excludable public goods. For a large economy with private information about individual preferences, the two approaches are shown to be equivalent if and only if, in addition to incentive compatibility and participation constraints, the nal allocation of private-good consumption and admission tickets to public goods satis es a condition of renegotiation proofness. Without this condition, a mechanism involving mixed bundling, i.e. combination tickets at a discount, is superior. Key Words: Mechanism Design, Excludable Public Goods, RamseyBoiteux Pricing, Renegotiation Proofness, Bundling JEL Classi cation: D61, H21, H41,H42
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