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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of Public Economic Theory Année : 2019

Public goods, voting, and growth

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Abstract We study a parametric politico‐economic model of economic growth with productive public goods and public consumption goods. The provision of public goods is funded by a proportional tax. Agents are heterogeneous in their initial capital endowments, discount factors, and the relative weights of public consumption in overall private utility. They vote on the shares of public goods in gross domestic products (GDP). We propose a definition of voting equilibrium, prove the existence and provide a characterization of voting equilibria, and obtain a closed‐form solution for the voting outcomes. Also we introduce a “fictitious” representative agent and interpret the outcome of voting as a choice made by a central planner for his benefit. Finally, we undertake comparative static analysis of the shares of public goods in GDP and of the rate of balanced growth with respect to the discount factors and the preferences for public consumption. The results of this analysis suggest that the representative‐agent version of our model is capable of capturing the interaction between many voting heterogeneous agents only if the heterogeneity is one‐dimensional.
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hal-04277150 , version 1 (09-11-2023)

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Kirill Borissov, Joseph Hanna, Stéphane Lambrecht. Public goods, voting, and growth. Journal of Public Economic Theory, 2019, 21 (6), pp.1221-1265. ⟨10.1111/jpet.12404⟩. ⟨hal-04277150⟩
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