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标题：Voluntary contributions “vote out” public ones
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作者：Aleix Calveras ; Juan-José Ganuza ; Gerard Llobet 等
期刊名称：SERIEs: Journal of the Spanish Economic Association
印刷版ISSN：1869-4187
电子版ISSN：1869-4195
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：3
页码：283-303
DOI：10.1007/s13209-011-0045-8
出版社：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
摘要：Many public goods are supported with both private and public funding. It is often argued that public funding, based on taxes, crowds out private philanthropic contributions. Agents respond to increases in taxes by decreasing their donations. The tax level, however, is not exogenous and it depends on the political equilibrium arising from agents’ voting decisions. In this paper we analyze a variety of motivations for voluntary donations and show that when philanthropic preferences become more prevalent in the society, the equilibrium tax level will tend to be lower and, more surprisingly, the stock of the public good may decrease.
关键词：Externalities; Philanthropy; Voting; Warm-glow giving; Prosocial behavior