This paper investigates the causes of municipalities secession in Brazil. The theoretical model proposes that the median voter is not fully informed about the efficiency effect of secession on public good provision and ...

Introduction: It is important to evaluate the coverage achieved in the public drugs provision. Aim: to study the provision of a merit good where three levels of government intervene. Materials and methods: We analyze a ...

The provision of public goods under asymmetric information has most often been viewed as a mechanism design problem under the aegis of an uninformed mediator. This paper focuses on institutional contexts without such a ...

We analyze the private provision of discrete public good games with incomplete information and continuous contributions. To use the terminology of [Admati and Perry, Review of Economic Studies 58 (1991) 259], we consider ...

This paper examines welfare implications of hard-to-tax markets, which are endogenously determined by tax enforcement costs. We show that social welfare may be maximized by keeping some markets untaxed, even when it is ...

We analyze the relation between public, education-related infrastructure and the quality of education in schools using a case-study of the construction and implementation of two large public libraries in low-income areas ...

We use data from the latinobarometer, Eurobarometer, General social survey (GSS) and world bank to examine the influence of the provisioning of public goods in the individual happiness. The hypothesis is that the countries ...

States usually differ markedly in terms of public goods provision and corruption. Why are some state governments able to provide adequate health and education services, but others tend to specialize in the provision of ...