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Public Economics Lectures Part 1: Introduction

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Bergstrom-Blume-Varian Model: Crowd-out<br />

Now suppose government introduces lump sum taxes t h on each<br />

individual h<br />

Revenue used to finance expenditure on public good T = ∑ t h<br />

Individual’s optimization problem is now:<br />

max U(X h , G h + G −h + T )<br />

s.t. X h + G h = Y h − t h<br />

<strong>Public</strong> <strong>Economics</strong> <strong>Lectures</strong> () <strong>Part</strong> 7: <strong>Public</strong> Goods and Externalities 34 / 138

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