Title
Multi-National Public Goods Provision under Multilateral Income Transfers & Productivity Differences
Abstract
This paper examines multinational public goods provision under multilateral income transfers and productivity differences across countries. We assume the existence of a planner who uses linear approximation for utility maximization for all countries. The main findings are: (i) A country is an income receiver if it has an advantage in producing public goods; (ii) the planner country can determine the values of transfers for all countries with an adjustment cost; (iii) all countries obtain an identical level of utility; (iv) the country with the lowest adjustment cost is the best candidate for the planner country. All results are derived based on well-known information regarding the cost of producing the public goods and on income levels.
Keywords
international public goods; multilateral income transfers; productivity difference; planner; adjustment cost; welfare
JEL Classification
H41, F1
Inquiries
Faculty of Science & Engineering, Hosei University, Tokyo, Japan
Laixun ZHAO
Research Institute for Economics and Business Administration
Kobe University
Rokkodai-cho, Nada-ku, Kobe
657-8501 Japan
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