PhD ECONOMIC THEORY SEMINAR: Differentiated Public Goods
Seminar
Dept Seminar (PhD and staff)
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Event date
Thursday 31 October 2024, 3pm to 4pm
Location
In-person only
A/EC201 Economics Meeting Room (next to staff room), Alcuin College, Campus West, University of York (Map)
A/EC201 Economics Meeting Room (next to staff room), Alcuin College, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Audience
Open to staff, students
Admission
Free admission, booking not required
Event details
Speaker: Kim-Sau Chung (Hongkong Baptist University)
Abstract: I study a model where different citizens have different preferences over different public goods. The model resolves three 30-year-old empirical paradoxes regarding public good provision (that many people contribute to public goods, that they contribute a lot, and that government contributions do not crowd out private contributions dollar-by-dollar). It also explains why polarized (diverse) societies contribute less (more) to public goods when compared to a homogeneous society. I also study how activist entrepreneurs package differentiated public goods into bundles to maximize donations.
Host: Zaifu Yang (York)