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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Lindahl Pricing: Practical Constraints<br />

1 Must be able to exclude a consumer from using the public good.<br />

Does not work with non-excludable public good<br />

2 Must know individual preferences to set personalized prices τ h<br />

Agents have no incentives to reveal their preferences<br />

Difference between Lindahl equilibria and standard equilibria:<br />

No decentralized mechanism for deriving prices; no market forces that<br />

will generate the right price vector<br />

So how do we actually determine level of PG’s in practice?<br />

Voting on bundles of PG’s and taxes<br />

Does voting lead to the first best solution?<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 7: <strong>Public</strong> Goods and Externalities 20 / 138

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