Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/71552 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IFS Working Papers No. 05/06
Publisher: 
Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), London
Abstract: 
We study noncooperative models with two agents and several voluntarily contributed public goods. We focus on interior equilibria in which neither agent is bound by non negativity constraints, establishing the conditions for existence and uniqueness of the equilibrium. While adding-up and homogeneity hold, negativity and symmetry properties are generally violated. We derive the counterpart to the Slutsky matrix, and show that it can be decomposed into the sum of a symmetric and negative semidefinite matrix and another the rank of which never exceeds the number of public goods plus one. Under separability of the public goods the deviation from symmetry is at most rank two.
Subjects: 
Nash equilibrium
Intra-household allocation
Slutsky symmetry
JEL: 
D11
C72
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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