An Efficiency Rationale for Bundling of Public Goods
53 Pages Posted: 10 Oct 2003
Date Written: October 2003
Abstract
This paper studies the optimal provision mechanism for multiple excludable public goods when agents' valuations are private information. For a parametric class of problems with binary valuations, we characterize the optimal mechanism, and show that it involves bundling. Bundling alleviates the free riding problem in large economies in two ways: first, it can increase the asymptotic provision probability of socially efficient public goods from zero to one; second, it decreases the extent of use exclusions.
Keywords: Public goods provision, bundling, exclusion
JEL Classification: H41
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