Pay-What-You-Want für öffentliche Güter: Eine Fallstudie zu vhs.wissen live

Egbert, Henrik and Greiff, Matthias (2023): Pay-What-You-Want für öffentliche Güter: Eine Fallstudie zu vhs.wissen live.

Abstract

Wir argumentieren und zeigen anhand einer Fallstudie, dass der Preismechanismus Pay-What-You-Want bei spezifischen öffentlichen Gütern eingesetzt werden kann. Durch die Einnahmen aus freiwilligen Zahlungen kann eine Teilfinanzierung der Erstellungskosten erfolgen. Wir grenzen Pay-What-You-Want für öffentliche Güter von Spenden ab. Der Pay-What-You-Want Mechanismus ist dabei umfassender, als Spenden. Eine Fallstudie zeigt, dass mit relativ geringem Aufwand Einnahmen entstehen. Dies impliziert, dass wenn Nutzern öffentlicher Güter die Möglichkeit einer freiwilligen Zahlung eröffnet wird, diese Güter in größerer Menge beziehungsweise besserer Qualität erstellt werden können.

We argue and employ a case study to show that the pay-what-you-want pricing mechanism can be applied to specific public goods. Revenues from voluntary payments can partially finance the production costs. We separate pay-what-you-want for public goods from donations and argue that the pay-what-you-want mechanism is more comprehensive than donations. A case study shows that revenues can be generated with moderate effort. This implies that if users of public goods are given the option of paying voluntarily, these goods can be produced in larger quantities or better quality.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• English Title: Pay-What-You-Want and Public Goods: a case study of vhs.wissen live
• Language: German
• Keywords: PWYW; Pay-What-You-Want; Pay-What-You-Want und öffentliche Güter; Pay-What-You-Want and public goods; Finanzierung öffentlicher Güter; financing of public goods; vhs.wissen live
• Subjects: D - Microeconomics > D4 - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design > D49 - Other; H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H27 - Other Sources of Revenue; H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H40 - General; H - Public Economics > H4 - Publicly Provided Goods > H41 - Public Goods; H - Public Economics > H8 - Miscellaneous Issues > H83 - Public Administration ; Public Sector Accounting and Audits

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