全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP5971 Claiming More: The Increased Voluminosity of Patent Applications and its Determinants

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP5971
	DP5971 Claiming More: The Increased Voluminosity of Patent Applications and its Determinants
	Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie; Dominique Guellec; Nicolas van Zeebroeck
发表日期	2006-12-03
出版年	2006
语种	英语
摘要	Majority rules are frequently used to decide whether or not a public good should be provided, but will typically fail to achieve an efficient provision. We provide a worst-case analysis of the majority rule with an optimally chosen majority threshold, assuming that voters have independent private valuations and are ex-ante symmetric (provision cost shares are included in the valuations). We show that if the population is large it can happen that the optimal majority rule is essentially no better than a random provision of the public good. But the optimal majority rule is worst-case asymptotically efficient in the large-population limit if (i) the voters' expected valuation is bounded away from 0, and (ii) an absolute bound for valuations is known.
主题	Industrial Organization
关键词	Majority rule Public goods
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp5971
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/534809
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Bruno van Pottelsberghe de la Potterie,Dominique Guellec,Nicolas van Zeebroeck. DP5971 Claiming More: The Increased Voluminosity of Patent Applications and its Determinants. 2006.