Calendrier du 14 janvier 2016
TOM (Théorie, Organisation et Marchés) Lunch Seminar
Du 14/01/2016 de 12:45 à 13:45
Campus jourdan, Bâtiment G, Rez de chaussée, Salle 10
BEHRINGER Stefan (*)
Public Good Provision with many Agents: The k-success technology
écrit avec Yukio Koriyama, Ecole Polytechnique
In this paper, we consider a class of public good provision problems in which the production function takes the form of k-success technology, an extension of the direct provision technology considered in Behringer (2013). These models are suitable to describe the free-rider problems in which there are a large number of agents who are both users and beneficiaries of a public good at the same time, e.g. open-source software or social networks. We provide results on asymptotic efficiency which connect a negative result of Mailath and Postlewaite (1990) and a positive result of Hellwig (2003), as well as a set of simple examples which allow us welfare comparison with the standard technologies.