Public Goods, Environmental Externalities and Fiscal Competition : Selected Papers on Competition, Efficiency and Cooperation in Public Economics

Parkash Chander

ISBN 10: 0387255338 / ISBN 13: 9780387255330

Editore: Springer Us Sep 2006, 2006

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Neuware - Over the last forty years, the field of public economics has emerged as a modern successor to public finance. It has gained importance on the research agenda of economists and in the curricula of economics depa- ments. It has become a diversified field, rich in theoretical developments and substantive applications. Beyond the traditional concerns with t- ation or public goods, a number of new concerns have entered the scene, concerning for instance public sector pricing, the management of public firms, social security or federalism. A comprehensive presentation of the field extends nowadays beyond the scope of textbooks and requires access to a growing specialised literature. The present volume, collecting 22 papers published by Henry Tulkens over the period 1978-2003, is offered as an illustration of these new developments. The illustration has three dimensions: approach, s- ject matters and methods. Coming from a single author, admittedly assisted by 18 co-authors, the different papers are illustrative of an underlying general approach, which I like to label ''operational public economics''. With these simple words, I mean an approach under which issues in public economics are formulated so as to capture essential elements of actual situations. Ty- cally, this leads to theoretical models more complex than standard te- book formulations. It is then up to the public economist to extend the theory as needed to fit the situation.

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• Titolo: Public Goods, Environmental Externalities and Fiscal Competition : Selected Papers on Competition, Efficiency and Cooperation in Public Economics
• Editore: Springer Us Sep 2006
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0387255338
• ISBN 13: 9780387255330
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 241 L x 162 A x 35 P (millimetri) 241 millimetri di larghezza per 162 millimetri di altezza per 35 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 969 grammi

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Over the last forty years, the field of public economics has emerged as a modern successor to public finance. Beyond the traditional concerns with t- ation or public goods, a number of new concerns have entered the scene, concerning for instance public sector pricing, the management of public firms, social security or federalism.

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The twenty-two papers collected in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens, an applied theorist, on the occasion of his retirement from teaching.  The collection is structured in four parts:

I.  Decentralized resource allocation processes for public and private goods

II. Environment, public goods and externalities

III. Efficiency analysis

IV. Fiscal competition and optimality

 

The four pictures above evoke a key concept, method or model used in each of these four parts:

> MDP-type processes to determine feasible paths to efficiency and coalitional stability.

> CLIMNEG World Simulation model to explore alternative environmental scenarios for the planet.

> Free Disposal Hull efficiency analysis to drop convexity and help deal with outliers.

> Non Cooperative Fiscal Equilbria to characterize the outcomes of fiscal competition