Fundamentals Of Public Economics

Author : Jean-Jacques Laffont
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
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Release : 2008-07
Category : Microeconomics
ISBN : 026251219X

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Fundamentals of Public Economics by Jean-Jacques Laffont Pdf

This text by one of Europe's leading economists covers a wide variety of public economics issues with great clarity and precision, illustrating them with a wealth of carefully-chosen examples and problems. Starting from theories of general equilibrium analysis, Laffont considers issues of market failure, collective decisionmaking, and distributional equity. He analyzes the important informational and motivational problems involved in planning solutions for market failures, and provides a rigorous justification for the theoretical foundations of public economics. Topics include the theories of externalities, public goods, collective choice, consumer surplus, cost-benefit analysis and/or theory of the second best, incomplete markets, and nonconvexities. For each Laffont begins with the classical foundations, moves on to consider the topic within a simple model of the economy, and concludes by integrating results from recent journal articles into this simple framework. In this way students are led to understand the classical tradition in the context of modern general equilibrium theory. The book concludes with eight problems with solutions, each interesting and rich enough to be considered a case study, and nine exercises without solutions; together they provide an excellent review of material covered in the text. The basic approach in each problem is to set up a general equilibrium model, discover the market failure by calculating the unfettered equilibrium, and develop an explicit planning solution. Jean-Jacques Laffont is Professor of Economics at the University of Social Sciences at Toulouse. Fundamentals of Economics may be used in either an advanced graduate-level course in public economics or in conjunction with a second volume forthcoming by the same author in a course in advanced microeconomics.

Author : Gareth D. Myles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107717312

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Public Economics by Gareth D. Myles Pdf

This textbook provides a thorough treatment of all the central topics in public economics. Aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students, it will also be invaluable to professional economists and to those teaching in the field. The book is entirely self-contained, giving all the equilibrium theory and welfare economics needed to understand the analyses. The author covers the Arrow-Debreu economy, welfare economics and the measurement of inequality and poverty which lay the foundations and emphasise the important role played by information. Within the competitive economy, he examines commodity taxation, income taxation and tax reform in a certain environment. He goes on to study the public economics of uncertainty, and then treats public goods, externalities, imperfect competition and tax evasion as departures from the standard competitive assumptions and looks at their implication for public economics derived.

Author : David A. Starrett
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988-06-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521348013

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Foundations in Public Economics by David A. Starrett Pdf

Discusses the major theoretical foundations of modern public sector economics. Includes market failures encompassing externalities, pure public goods, local public goods and natural monopolies. Representative voting, benefit cost analysis, incentive compatible design mechanisms and the free market are points also covered. Special attention is paid to financial arrangements, techniques for eliciting necessary information and identification of biases that will result from incorrect procedures.

Author : Martin Feldstein,A.J. Auerbach
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0080544193

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Handbook of Public Economics by Martin Feldstein,A.J. Auerbach Pdf

The Field of Public Economics has been changing rapidly in recent years, and the sixteen chapters contained in this Handbook survey many of the new developments. As a field, Public Economics is defined by its objectives rather than its techniques and much of what is new is the application of modern methods of economic theory and econometrics to problems that have been addressed by economists for over two hundred years. More generally, the discussion of public finance issues also involves elements of political science, finance and philosophy. These connections are evidence in several of the chapters that follow. Public Economics is the positive and normative study of government's effect on the economy. We attempt to explain why government behaves as it does, how its behavior influences the behavior of private firms and households, and what the welfare effects of such changes in behavior are. Following Musgrave (1959) one may imagine three purposes for government intervention in the economy: allocation, when market failure causes the private outcome to be Pareto inefficient, distribution, when the private market outcome leaves some individuals with unacceptably low shares in the fruits of the economy, and stabilization, when the private market outcome leaves some of the economy's resources underutilized. The recent trend in economic research has tended to emphasize the character of stabilization problems as problems of allocation in the labor market. The effects that government intervention can have on the allocation and distribution of an economy's resources are described in terms of efficiency and incidence effects. These are the primary measures used to evaluate the welfare effects of government policy.

Author : P. W. Abelson
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Higher Education
Page : 697 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Expenditures, Public
ISBN : 0070139059

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Public Economics by P. W. Abelson Pdf

"This text shows how ecomonic analysis can be applied to a wide range of public issues dealing with public expenditure and taxation, social welfare and market regulation. The book describes the basic principles of public economics but also describes many policy applications in Australia and internationally."--Provided by publisher

Author : Jean Hindriks,Gareth D. Myles
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262018692

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Intermediate Public Economics, second edition by Jean Hindriks,Gareth D. Myles Pdf

A new edition of a comprehensive text, updated throughout, with new material on behavioral economics, international taxation, cost-benefit analysis, and the economics of climate policy. Public economics studies how government taxing and spending activities affect the economy—economic efficiency and the distribution of income and wealth. This comprehensive text on public economics covers the core topics of market failure and taxation as well as recent developments in both policy and the academic literature. It is unique not only in its broad scope but in its balance between public finance and public choice and its combination of theory and relevant empirical evidence. The book covers the theory and methodology of public economics; presents a historical and theoretical overview of the public sector; and discusses such topics as departures from efficiency (including imperfect competition and asymmetric information), issues in political economy, equity, taxation, fiscal federalism, and tax competition among independent jurisdictions. Suggestions for further reading, from classic papers to recent research, appear in each chapter, as do exercises. The mathematics has been kept to a minimum without sacrificing intellectual rigor; the book remains analytical rather than discursive. This second edition has been thoroughly updated throughout. It offers new chapters on behavioral economics, limits to redistribution, international taxation, cost-benefit analysis, and the economics of climate policy. Additional exercises have been added and many sections revised in response to advice from readers of the first edition.

Author : Selestine Wilson Ramadhani
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Finance, Public
ISBN : 0805985298

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Fundamentals of Public Finance by Selestine Wilson Ramadhani Pdf

This book provides a new approach to public finance for self-study and a reference basis. It meets the demand of users at all levels of academics, from secondary schools to postgraduate levels, at both in-campus and distance learning programs. The incorporation of financial programming topics makes it useful to policy makers, researchers, and general economists. -- from back cover.

Author : Anthony B. Atkinson,Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691166414

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Lectures on Public Economics by Anthony B. Atkinson,Joseph E. Stiglitz Pdf

The definitive textbook on public finance—now back in print for the first time in years This classic introduction to public finance remains the best advanced-level textbook on the subject ever written. First published in 1980, Lectures on Public Economics still tops reading lists at many leading universities despite the fact that the book has been out of print for years. This new edition makes it readily available again to a new generation of students and practitioners in public economics. The lectures presented here examine the behavioral responses of households and firms to tax changes. Topics include the effects of taxation on labor supply, savings, risk-taking, the firm, debt, and economic growth. The book then delves into normative questions such as the design of tax systems, optimal taxation, public sector pricing, and public goods, including local public goods. Written by two of the world's preeminent economists, this edition of Lectures on Public Economics features a new introduction by Anthony Atkinson and Joseph Stiglitz that discusses the latest developments in the field and areas for future research. The definitive advanced-level textbook on public economics Examines the effects of taxation on households and firms Covers tax system design, optimal taxation, public sector pricing, and more Includes suggestions for further reading Additional resources available online

Author : Ulrich U. Schmidt,Stefan Traub
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0387257055

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Advances in Public Economics: Utility, Choice and Welfare by Ulrich U. Schmidt,Stefan Traub Pdf

"The Festschrift in honor of Christian Seidl" gathers a group of prominent authors being experts in areas like Public Economics, Welfare Economics, Social Choice Theory, Public Choice Theory, Decision Theory and Experimental Economics. Christian Seidl, known as one of the editors of the three-volume "Handbook of Utility Theory", has dedicated his research to utility-theoretic fundamentals, and the welfare implications of individual and group decision making. During the last decade, he has turned part of his attention to a research tool that has gained a lot of importance in economics: the laboratory experiment. The Advances in Public Economics: Utility Choice and Welfare is an attempt to illuminate all facets of Christian Seidl’s research agenda by presenting an ambitious collection of both purely theoretical and experimental papers on utility, choice and welfare, written by his closest friends and colleagues.

Author : Wolfgang Schön,Kai A. Konrad
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642259807

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Fundamentals of International Transfer Pricing in Law and Economics by Wolfgang Schön,Kai A. Konrad Pdf

The taxation of multinational corporate groups has become a major concern in the academic and political debate on the future of international taxation. In particular the arm’s length standard for the determination of transfer prices is under increasing pressure. Many countries and international bodies are now taking a closer look at the use of transfer prices for profit shifting and are exploring alternative mechanisms such as formulary apportionment for the allocation of taxing rights. With regard to this topic, this volume is the first to offer a concise analysis of transfer pricing in the international tax arena from an interdisciplinary legal and economic point of view. Fundamentals such as the efficient allocation of resources within multi-unit firms and distortions between different goals of transfer pricing as well as different aspects of it in tax and corporate law, the traditional OECD approach and practical aspects concerning intangibles, capital and risk allocation are covered by outstanding authors.

Author : Jean Hindriks,Gareth D. Myles
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780262313803

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Intermediate Public Economics, second edition by Jean Hindriks,Gareth D. Myles Pdf

A new edition of a comprehensive text, updated throughout, with new material on behavioral economics, international taxation, cost-benefit analysis, and the economics of climate policy. Public economics studies how government taxing and spending activities affect the economy—economic efficiency and the distribution of income and wealth. This comprehensive text on public economics covers the core topics of market failure and taxation as well as recent developments in both policy and the academic literature. It is unique not only in its broad scope but in its balance between public finance and public choice and its combination of theory and relevant empirical evidence. The book covers the theory and methodology of public economics; presents a historical and theoretical overview of the public sector; and discusses such topics as departures from efficiency (including imperfect competition and asymmetric information), issues in political economy, equity, taxation, fiscal federalism, and tax competition among independent jurisdictions. Suggestions for further reading, from classic papers to recent research, appear in each chapter, as do exercises. The mathematics has been kept to a minimum without sacrificing intellectual rigor; the book remains analytical rather than discursive. This second edition has been thoroughly updated throughout. It offers new chapters on behavioral economics, limits to redistribution, international taxation, cost-benefit analysis, and the economics of climate policy. Additional exercises have been added and many sections revised in response to advice from readers of the first edition.

Author : Francesco Forte
Publisher : Edward Elgar Pub
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1858986737

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Principles of Public Economics by Francesco Forte Pdf

'A long professional and personal association with Francesco Forte accustoms one to the extraordinary breadth of his knowledge, understanding and original thinking not only on economic but also legal and political questions. Principles of Public Economics displays all these estimable qualities to the full, adding for good measure a style and content that must attract both student and savant alike.' - Sir Alan Peacock, Heriot-Watt University, UK

Author : Peter Abelson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Expenditures, Public
ISBN : 1864088559

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Public Economics by Peter Abelson Pdf

Public economics: principles and practice.

Author : June A. Sekera
Publisher : Springer
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319404875

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The Public Economy in Crisis by June A. Sekera Pdf

This Brief proposes a new theory of public economics which deemphasizes reliance on the free market and affirms the importance of public goods and services within the context of the democratic process and constitutional governance. Public non-market production makes up from a quarter to more than half of all economic activity in advanced democratic nation-states. Yet by imposing market precepts on the public domain, as mainstream economics, political science, and public administration do, public governing capacity is weakened and the democratic system suffers. Agencies originally created to meet public needs are being warped into entities whose purpose is to generate revenue and, in some cases, deliver private profits at public expense. Drawing on classic public finance literature, this book illustrates the differences between public economy and the market model and why those differences matter. Building on this, the Brief sketches the elements of a new theory of the public non-market and illuminates its connections to the delegation of power and collective provision of resources from the polity. This book will be useful to scholars of public economics, political science, and public administration as well as policy makers and those working in the public sector.

Author : Robin W. Boadway,David E. Wildasin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034281936

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Public Sector Economics by Robin W. Boadway,David E. Wildasin Pdf