caa a22 4500 477077773 CHVBK 20180405111443.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170330e19960901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF00153235 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF00153235 Do government subsidies increase the private supply of public goods? [Elektronische Daten] [James Andreoni, Ted Bergstrom] We study three different models in which public goods are supplied by private contributions. In one of these models, tax-financed government subsidies to private contributions will definitely increase the equilibrium supply of public goods. In the other two models, government subsidies are neutralized by offsetting changes in private contributions. We explain why it is that these models lead to opposite conclusions and we argue on the basis of our first model that a government that wants to use taxes and subsidies to increase total provision of public goods will be able to do so. Indeed, our model yields a surprisingly decisive comparative statics result. If public goods and private goods are both normal goods, then an increase in the subsidy rate will necessarily increase the equilibrium supply of public goods. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996 Andreoni James Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, 53706-1393, Madison, WI aut Bergstrom Ted Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 48109-1220, Ann Arbor, MI aut Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 88/3-4(1996-09-01), 295-308 0048-5829 88:3-4<295 1996 88 11127 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00153235 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00153235 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Andreoni James Department of Economics, University of Wisconsin, 53706-1393, Madison, WI aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bergstrom Ted Department of Economics, University of Michigan, 48109-1220, Ann Arbor, MI aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Public Choice Kluwer Academic Publishers; http://www.wkap.nl 88/3-4(1996-09-01), 295-308 0048-5829 88:3-4<295 1996 88 11127 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer