Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/62811 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
Working Paper No. 556
Publisher: 
Queen Mary University of London, Department of Economics, London
Abstract: 
We introduce a model of a local public goods economy with a continuum of agents and jurisdictions with finite, but unbounded populations. Under boundedness of per capita payoffs we demonstrate nonemptiness of the core of the economy. We then demonstrate that the equal treatment core coincides with the set of price-taking equilibrium outcomes with anonymous prices - that is, prices for public goods depend only on observable characteristics of agents. Existence of equilibrium follows from nonemptiness of the core and equivalence of the core to the set of equilibrium outcomes. Our approach provides a new technique for showing existence of equilibrium in economies with a continuum of agents.
Subjects: 
Tiebout, Clubs, Jurisdictions, F-core, Core-equilibrium equivalence, Edgeworth equivalence, Continuum economies with clubs, Crowding types, Core, Equal treatment core
JEL: 
C62
D71
H41
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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