On Allocation Contests for Publicly Provided Goods

IF 0.6 Q4 ECONOMICS

South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance Pub Date : 2018-06-01 DOI:10.1177/2277978718760445

Arijit Sen

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Abstract

In many countries, the government provides goods and services that are rival in consumption—essential commodities, such as water, public transportation and basic health care, and merit goods like professional education and tertiary health care. For such goods, the government has to specify allocation rules under which citizens can access them. Affluent citizens often have the incentive and the ability to influence public allocation rules by engaging in allocation contests. This article presents simple models of allocation contests for a divisible essential commodity and an indivisible merit good, and studies contest equilibria and their implications for social outcomes. Given allocation contests over public provision, falling public supply of an essential commodity can have magnified negative impact on social welfare, and raising the reservation quota of a publicly provided merit good for a set of disadvantaged citizens might effectively lower their access to the good. JEL: C72, D61, H42

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公共物品分配竞赛研究

在许多国家，政府提供的商品和服务在消费方面具有竞争力——水、公共交通和基本医疗保健等基本商品，以及专业教育和高等医疗保健等优质商品。对于这些商品，政府必须规定公民可以获得的分配规则。富裕的公民通常有动机和能力通过参与分配竞赛来影响公共分配规则。本文提出了可分割的基本商品和不可分割的价值商品的分配竞争的简单模型，并研究了竞争均衡及其对社会结果的影响。考虑到对公共供应的分配竞争，一种基本商品的公共供应下降可能会放大对社会福利的负面影响，而提高一批弱势公民对公共提供的优质商品的保留配额可能会有效地降低他们获得该商品的机会。JEL:C72，D61，H42

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South Asian Journal of Macroeconomics and Public Finance ECONOMICS-

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2.10

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11.10%

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