I discuss recent contributions to the theory of group formation and the provision of jointly
consumed public goods and services. I highlight the distinction between models of pure …

English summary: Lars P. Feld evaluates the economic arguments for or against tax
competition in a federal polity and summarizes the empirical evidence concerned with the …

Fiscal decentralization is on the rise worldwide while barriers to factor and population
mobility are declining. Greater decentralized government activity is therefore taking place in …

We introduce a model of network formation whose primitives consist of a feasible set of
networks, player preferences, rules of network formation, and a dominance relation on …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to offer the economic theory of clubs as a potential
unifying paradigm for the study of ethnic economies and social capital. Design/methodology …

This article examines optimal social linkage when each individual's repeated interaction with
each of his neighbors creates spillovers. Each individual's discount factor is randomly …

In the literature of psychology and economics it is frequently observed that individuals tend
to conform in their behavior to that of similar individuals. A fundamental question is whether …

We develop a model with a finite number of households and congestible local public goods
where the level of provision, the number of facilities and their locations are all endogenously …

We introduce the framework of parameterized collections of games with and without
sidepayments and provide three nonemptiness of approximate core theorems. The …

We consider an economy with a countably infinite number of consumers and pure public
information goods. Each of these differentiated products is produced by a single monopoly …