Intermediate Public Economics.
Jean. Hindriks
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
| Omfang | 1 online resource (1013 pages)
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| Utgave | 2nd ed.
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| Opplysninger | Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface to Second Edition -- Preface to First Edition -- List of Figures -- Part I. Public Economics and Economic Efficiency -- Chapter 1. An Introduction to Public Economics -- 1.1 Public Economics -- 1.2 Methods -- 1.3 Analyzing Policy -- 1.4 Preview -- 1.5 Scope -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 2. Equilibrium and Efficiency -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Economic Models -- 2.3 Competitive Economies -- 2.4 The Exchange Economy -- 2.5 Production and Exchange -- 2.6 Efficiency of Competition -- 2.7 Lump-Sum Taxation -- 2.8 Discussion of Assumptions -- 2.9 Summary -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 3. Behavioral Economics -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Behavioral Individuals -- 3.3 Behavioral Markets -- 3.4 Behavioral Policy -- 3.5 BehavioralWelfare -- 3.6 Other-Regarding Preferences -- 3.7 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Part II. Government -- Chapter 4. Public Sector Statistics -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Historical Development -- 4.3 Composition of Expenditure -- 4.4 Revenue -- 4.5 Government Debt -- 4.6 Measuring the Government -- 4.7 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 5. Theories of the Public Sector -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Justification for the Public Sector -- 5.3 Public Sector Growth -- 5.4 Excessive Government -- 5.5 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Part III. Departures From Efficiency -- Chapter. 6 Public Goods -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Definitions -- 6.3 Private Provision -- 6.4 Efficient Provision -- 6.5 Voting -- 6.6 Personalized Prices -- 6.7 Mechanism Design -- 6.8 More on Private Provision -- 6.9 Fund-Raising Campaigns -- 6.10 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 7. Club Goods and Local Public Goods -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Definitions -- 7.3 Single-Product Clubs -- 7.4 Clubs and the Economy -- 7.5 Local Public Goods.. - 13.5 Redistribution In-Kind -- 13.6 Aspects of Pareto-Efficiency -- 13.7 SocialWelfare Functions -- 13.8 Arrow's Theorem -- 13.9 Interpersonal Comparability -- 13.10 Comparability and SocialWelfare -- 13.11 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 14. Inequality and Poverty -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 Measuring Income -- 14.3 Equivalence Scales -- 14.4 Inequality Measurement -- 14.5 Poverty -- 14.6 Unequal Opportunities -- 14.7 Intergenerational Inequality -- 14.8 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Parti VI. Taxation -- Chapter 15. Commodity Taxation -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Deadweight Loss -- 15.3 Optimal Taxation -- 15.4 Production Efficiency -- 15.5 Tax Rules -- 15.6 Equity Considerations -- 15.7 Applications -- 15.8 Efficient Taxation -- 15.9 Public Sector Pricing -- 15.10 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 16. Income Taxation -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Equity and Efficiency -- 16.3 Taxation and Labor Supply -- 16.4 Empirical Evidence -- 16.5 Optimal Income Taxation -- 16.6 Two Specializations -- 16.7 Numerical Results -- 16.8 Voting over a Flat Tax -- 16.9 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 17. Tax Evasion -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 The Extent of Evasion -- 17.3 The Evasion Decision -- 17.4 Auditing and Punishment -- 17.5 Evidence on Evasion -- 17.6 Effect of Honesty -- 17.7 Tax Compliance Game -- 17.8 Behavioral Models -- 17.9 Compliance and Social Interaction -- 17.10 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 18. The Limits to Redistribution -- 18.1 Introduction -- 18.2 Revelation Principle -- 18.3 The Tax Principle -- 18.4 Tax Mix: Separation Principle -- 18.5 Capital Income Tax -- 18.6 Non-Tax Redistribution -- 18.7 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Part VII. Multiple Jurisdictions -- Chapter 19. Fiscal Federalism.. - 19.2 Arguments for Multi-level Government -- 19.3 Optimal Structure: Efficiency versus Stability -- 19.4 Accountability -- 19.5 Risk-Sharing -- 19.6 Hard and Soft Budgets -- 19.7 Evidence on Decentralization -- 19.8 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 20. Fiscal Competition -- 20.1 Introduction -- 20.2 Tax Competition -- 20.3 Income Distribution -- 20.4 Intergovernmental Transfers -- 20.5 Evidence -- 20.6 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 21. Issues in International Taxation -- 21.1 Introduction -- 21.2 International Efficiency -- 21.3 Capital and Corporations -- 21.4 Transfer Pricing -- 21.5 Location -- 21.6 Harmonization of Taxes -- 21.7 Tax Principles -- 21.8 Tariff Policy -- 21.9 Trade Agreements -- 21.10 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Part VIII. Issues of Time -- Chapter 22. Intertemporal Efficiency -- 22.1 Introduction -- 22.2 Overlapping Generations -- 22.3 Equilibrium -- 22.4 Optimality and Efficiency -- 22.5 Testing Efficiency -- 22.6 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 23. Social Security -- 23.1 Introduction -- 23.2 Types of System -- 23.3 The Pensions Crisis -- 23.4 The Simplest Program -- 23.5 Social Security and Production -- 23.6 Population Growth -- 23.7 Sustaining a Program -- 23.8 Ricardian Equivalence -- 23.9 Social Security Reform -- 23.10 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 24. Economic Growth -- 24.1 Introduction -- 24.2 Exogenous Growth -- 24.3 Endogenous Growth -- 24.4 Policy Reform -- 24.5 Empirical Evidence -- 24.6 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Part IX. Applications -- Chapter 25. Cost-Benefit Analysis -- 25.1 Introduction -- 25.2 What Is Cost-Benefit Analysis? -- 25.3 The Process of CBA -- 25.4 Principles of CBA -- 25.5 Valuing Life -- 25.6 Valuing the Future -- 25.7 Theoretical Foundations of CBA.. - 25.8 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 26. Economics of Climate Policy -- 26.1 Introduction -- 26.2 Special Features -- 26.3 The Science of GlobalWarming -- 26.4 Integrating Economics and Climate -- 26.5 Competing Generations -- 26.6 Ecological Discounting -- 26.7 Climate Policy in Practice -- 26.8 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Index.. - 7.6 The Tiebout Hypothesis -- 7.7 Empirical Tests -- 7.8 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 8. Externalities -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Externalities Defined -- 8.3 Market Inefficiency -- 8.4 Externality Examples -- 8.5 Pigouvian Taxation -- 8.6 Licenses -- 8.7 Internalization -- 8.8 The Coase Theorem -- 8.9 Nonconvexity -- 8.10 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 9. Imperfect Competition -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Concepts of Competition -- 9.3 Market Structure -- 9.4 Welfare -- 9.5 Tax Incidence -- 9.6 Specific and Ad valorem Taxation -- 9.7 Regulation of Monopoly -- 9.8 Regulation of Oligopoly -- 9.9 Unions and Taxation -- 9.10 Monopsony -- 9.11 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 10. Asymmetric Information -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Hidden Knowledge and Hidden Action -- 10.3 Actions or Knowledge? -- 10.4 Market Unraveling -- 10.5 Screening -- 10.6 Signaling -- 10.7 Moral Hazard (Hidden Action) -- 10.8 Public Provision of Health Care -- 10.9 Evidence -- 10.10 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Part IV. Political Economy -- Chapter 11. Voting -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Stability -- 11.3 Impossibility -- 11.4 Majority Rule -- 11.5 Alternatives to Majority Rule -- 11.6 The Paradox of Voting -- 11.7 The "Alabama" Paradox -- 11.8 Political Competition -- 11.9 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Chapter 12. Rent-Seeking -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Definitions -- 12.3 Rent-Seeking Games -- 12.4 Social Cost of Monopoly -- 12.5 Equilibrium Effects -- 12.6 Government Policy -- 12.7 Informative Lobbying -- 12.8 Controlling Rent-Seeking -- 12.9 Conclusions -- Further Reading -- Exercises -- Part V. Equity and Distribution -- Chapter 13. Optimality and Comparability -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 Social Optimality -- 13.3 Lump-Sum Taxes -- 13.4 Impossibility of Lump-Sum Taxes.. - 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.
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