Public Goods Club Goods and the Measurement of Crowding
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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 correspondence to the rst author Michael Reiter Alfons J Weichenrieder Department of Economics Department of Economics Universitat Pompeu Fabra University of Munich Ramon Trias Fargas Schackstr E Barcelona D Munich e mail reiter upf es a weichenrieder ces vwl uni muenchen de The theoretical benchmark case of a pure public good has received wide attention in the public economics literature Numerous empirical studies however have found that public services provided at the community level are subject to heavy crowding e ects A central element of all these studies is a crowding function of the form
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