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The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods

Essays in Memory of Richard C. Cornes

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Editors:
  1. Wolfgang Buchholz

    1. Institute of Economics and Econometrics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

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  2. Dirk Rübbelke

    1. Chair for Economics Especially Resource Economics, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

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  • Analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods
  • Employ new analytical techniques like the aggregative game approach
  • Written in memory of Richard C. Cornes, a pioneer in the theory of externalities and public goods
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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods: The Lifework of Richard Cornes

    • Wolfgang Buchholz, Dirk Rübbelke
    Pages 1-5

  3. Efficiency in Contests Between Groups

    • Roger Hartley
    Pages 7-27

  4. Multiple-Aggregate Games

    • Alex Dickson
    Pages 29-59

  5. Strategic Coalition Formation in Global Public Good Provision

    • Wolfgang Buchholz, Michael Eichenseer
    Pages 61-84

  6. Evolution of Consistent Conjectures in Semi-aggregative Representation of Games, with Applications to Public Good Games and Contests

    • Alex Possajennikov
    Pages 85-105

  7. Mixed-Strategy Kant-Nash Equilibrium and Private Contributions to a Public Good

    • Ngo Van Long
    Pages 107-126

  8. Social Creation of Pro-social Preferences for Collective Action

    • Avinash Dixit, Simon Levin
    Pages 127-143

  9. Community Size and Public Goods in Hume’s Treatise of Human Nature

    • Simon Vicary
    Pages 145-161

  10. Decentralized Leadership

    • Emilson Caputo Delfino Silva
    Pages 163-178

  11. Debt Neutrality Without Altruism: Voluntary Contributions to Public Goods as ‘Operative Linkages’

    • Christian Haslbeck, Wolfgang Peters
    Pages 179-196

  12. Counterterrorism: A Public Goods Approach

    • Todd Sandler
    Pages 197-218

  13. Linguistic Assimilation and Ethno-religious Conflict

    • Indraneel Dasgupta
    Pages 219-242

  14. International Carbon Trade and National Taxes: Distributional Impacts of Double Regulation

    • Thomas Eichner, Rüdiger Pethig
    Pages 243-269

  15. Thinking Local but Acting Global? The Interplay Between Local and Global Internalization of Externalities

    • Karen Pittel, Dirk Rübbelke
    Pages 271-297

  16. Showdown in Schönau: A Contest Case Study

    • Bouwe R. Dijkstra, Patrick R. Graichen
    Pages 299-326
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About this book

This state-of-the art collection of papers analyses various aspects of the theory of externalities and public goods. The contributions employ new analytical techniques like the aggregative game approach, and discuss the philosophical underpinnings of the theory. Furthermore, they highlight a range of topical empirical applications including climate policy and counterterrorism. This contributed volume was written in memory of Richard C. Cornes, a pioneer in the theory of externalities and public goods.

Reviews

“The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Cornes provides a variety of state-of-the-art essays on the topics of public goods, contests, and clubs. It includes many real-world applications, such as to environmental policies and climate change. Professor Richard Cornes has had a tremendous and far-reaching intellectual influence, so it is not surprising that the book contains several outstanding contributions.” (Nizar Allouch, Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. 56 (4), December, 2018)​

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute of Economics and Econometrics, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany

    Wolfgang Buchholz

  • Chair for Economics Especially Resource Economics, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Freiberg, Germany

    Dirk Rübbelke

About the editors

Wolfgang Buchholz has studied Mathematics, Economics and Political Science at the Universities of Freiburg and Tübingen, where he got his Ph.D. in Economics in 1982 and finished his Habilitation in 1987. In 1988 he became an associate professor of economics at the University of Regensburg. After an interplay as a professor at the newly founded European University in Frankfurt (Oder) between 1992 and 1996 he returned to Regensburg – now as a full professor of pubic economics. His main fields of research are international environmental economics, the theory of public goods, intertemporal evaluation and discounting, social protection and distribution policy and the links between economics and ethics.

Dirk T.G. Rübbelke is Professor of Economics at Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg. Before he joined Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, he was IKERBASQUE Research Professor at the Basque Centre for Climate Change (2010-2014), Senior Research Fellow at the Center for International Climate and Environmental Research – Oslo (2008-2010) and Juniorprofessor at Chemnitz University of Technology (2002-2008). He is also Research Associate at the Centre for European Economic Research (ZEW), Mannheim and Fellow Member in the CESifo Research Network, Munich. Prof. Rübbelke did research and taught at internationally renowned universities and research centres. These are, inter alia, Australian National University in Canberra, Hebrew University Jerusalem, Jadavpur University in Kolkata, Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance in Munich and University of Nottingham. He has published in internationally renowned journals such as Climatic Change, Economica, Economics Letters, Environmental and Resource Economics, Journal of Public Economics, Journal of Public Economic Theory, Resource and Energy Economics, and World Economy.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Theory of Externalities and Public Goods

  • Book Subtitle: Essays in Memory of Richard C. Cornes

  • Editors: Wolfgang Buchholz, Dirk Rübbelke

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49442-5

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-49441-8Published: 27 March 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84163-2Published: 20 July 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-49442-5Published: 20 March 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 326

  • Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Public Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Game Theory

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