Congested Public Goods: the Case of Fire Protection
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This paper uses a fire protection measure based on a community’s tire insurance rating to estimate the strength of congestion effects for fire protectron services. The empirical results show that the congestion properties of fire protection are much like those of a pure public good. In addition, the paper introduces a new notion of returns to scale for public goods and estimates the relevant parameters for the fire protection case.
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