Dynamic voluntary provision of public goods: Extension to nonlinear strategies

Abstract Fershtman and Nitzan (Dynamic voluntary provision of public goods, European Economic Review 35, 1057–1067, 1991) propose that dynamic considerations inherent to Markov-perfect strategies lower the ultimate private provision of public goods over and above the static and open loop shortfall. This note, using nonlinear strategies, proves that this finding hinges upon ‘linearity’ rather than on the Markov-requirement.