This survey investigates the increasing importance of global public goods (GPGs) in today's
interdependent world, driven by ever-growing, cross-border externalities and public good …

Most models of social preferences and bounded rationality that are effective in explaining
efficiency‐increasing departures from equilibrium behavior cannot easily account for similar …

Countries generally agree that global greenhouse gas emissions are too high, but prefer
other countries reduce emissions rather than reducing their own. The Paris Agreement is …

This study presents empirically calibrated simulations of three different variants of
environmental matching agreements aimed at reducing global greenhouse gas emissions …

Matching mechanisms have been proposed to improve public good provision in voluntary
contributions. However, such decentralized subsidizing mechanisms may not be Pareto …

This paper applies conjectural variations (CVs) to a model of public good provision and
shows that CVs are superior to Nash beliefs. In addition to imposing consistency, as …

Matching is a commonly used fund-raising tactic, whereby small donors have their donation
to a charity matched via a fund established by large donors. I develop a model in which a …

In the era of deepening multi-polarization and globalization, the supply and demand of
public goods in the world show an unbalanced situation. The question of how to deal with …

What is the optimal group size in the voluntary provision of public goods in a purely altruistic
economy? The popular consensus on this fundamental question is that the free-rider …

This special issue, and Issue 5, Volume 21, of the Journal of Public Economic Theory
commemorate 30 years since the publication of three path‐breaking contributions to public …