Interpreting The Relationship Between The Provision Of The Intergenerational Public Goods And The Local Government Competition In Economic Terms

The intergenerational public goods, which is shared between multiple overlappinggenerations, is an important kind of public goods. With the features of depreciationdue to utilization, and absence of the future agents, as well as the intergenerationaloverspills, the intergenerational public goods extends the general public goods fromthe intertemporal dimension. The intergenerational public goods is not only animportant part of the Public Goods in the real world, but also an meaningfuldevelopment and complement of the traditional concept of the public goods. What'smore, with the feature of intergenerational overspills, the intergenerational publicgoods has strong relationship with the solution of the problems on intergenerationaljustice, which improves the concept of Sustainable Development deeply.This thesis concerns on the overlapping generations model, which demonstrates thatthe competition between local governments could internalize the intergenerationaloverspills and lead to higher efficiency on the provision of the intergenerationalpublic goods. The innovation of this thesis is that it makes analysis and modifies thetheoretical model on the basic of the development conditions in China. The focus ofthe analysis, which explains the problem of the provision of the intergenerationalpublic goods in China and gives the policy suggestion in the end, is on the objectivesand subject conditions of the behavior of the local governments in China, as well asthe massage-sending mechanism of the intergenerational public goods itself.