Rawlsian pricing of access to public facilities:: A unidimensional illustration

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Dreze, Jacques; Le Breton, Michel; Weber, Shlomo
• 署名单位: Southern Methodist University; Universite de Toulouse; Universite Toulouse 1 Capitole; Universite Catholique Louvain
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC THEORY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-0531
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jet.2006.09.007
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 759-766
• 关键词: rawlsian pricing formula; Optimal jurisdictions; secession-proofness; Rawlsian allocations; EFFICIENCY

摘要

We consider a setting where citizens using a public facility face an idiosyncratic private access cost and must also contribute to the costs of facility. We show that if the population is uniformly spread over the real line, the cost of a facility is independent of location and access costs are linear in distance, the Rawlsian access pricing is the unique cost sharing solution that satisfies the core property of secession-proofness. The latter amounts to the voluntary participation principle under which no group of citizens should be charged more than the cost incurred if it had acted on its own. (C) 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.