Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.48548/pubdata-1182
Resource typeWorking Paper
Title(s)Excludable and Non-excludable Public Inputs: Consequences for Economic Growth
DOI10.48548/pubdata-1182
Handle20.500.14123/1245
CreatorOtt, Ingrid  136759203
Turnovsky, Stephen J.
AbstractMany public goods are characterized by rivalry and/or excludability. This paper introduces both non-excludable and excludable public inputs into a simple endogenous growth model. We derive the equilibrium growth rate and design the optimal tax and user-cost structure. Our results emphasize the role of congestion in determining this optimal financing structure and the consequences this has in turn for the government’s budget. The latter consists of fee and tax revenues that are used to finance the entire public production input and that may or may not suffice to finance the entire public input, depending upon the degree of congestion. We extend the model to allow for monopoly pricing of the user fee by the government. Most of the analysis is conducted for general production functions consistent with endogenous growth, although the case of CES technology is also considered.
LanguageEnglish
KeywordsPublic Good; Congestion; Growth; Öffentliches Gut; Übervölkerung; Bevölkerungswachstum
Year of publication in PubData2005
Publishing typeFirst publication
Publication versionPublished version
Date issued2005-07-06
Creation contextResearch
Published byMedien- und Informationszentrum, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
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