A Note on “Corporate Provision of Public Goods”

Morgan and Tumlinson (2019, Management Science 65(10), 4489–4504) study a game in which citizens first fund a company venture or purchase bonds, and then bondholders and the firm’s manager, acting on behalf of the shareholders, contribute to a public good. One of their major results is that the venture is funded with positive probability in all trembling-hand perfect Nash equilibria. The purpose of this note is to prove the existence of economies in which the venture is not funded in all trembling-hand perfect Nash equilibria.

This paper was accepted by Joshua Gans, business strategy.