Escolha social e provisão de qualidade ambiental por um Governo Leviathan: um modelo de otimização para sítios de recreação

Abstract

This study presents a demand-provision model of quality of recreation sites. A Leviathan government collects taxes over users of recreation sites in order to maximize its revenue and provide quality improvement to attend demand. This paper derives efficiente conditions for a self-interested government to maximize revenue subject to the demand function fo site quality, the costs of provision, the ''representative'' cosumer preferences, and the government's budget equilibrium condition. The results show that the government must take into consideration three economic impacts in order to keep efficient provision and allocation of site quality: the quality tax impact, the government expenditure impact, and the individual preference impact.