Download or read book Essays in International Trade and Public Economics written by Margarita M. Kalamova and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 2012 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays of this book are contributions to the empirical Literature in International Trade and Public Economics. They deal with the relationship between the structure and quality of the public sector and the process of economic integration. Two of the essays add to the empirical determinants of trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) and to the numerous applications of the theory of government decentralization. Decentralization tends to discourage inward FDI and domestic trade and to increase imports and exports. A third essay focuses on the effect of governments' intangible assets - such as consumer perceptions about countries and products from these countries - on FDI. A country's nation brand is shown to have a significant and large positive effect on investment flows.

Download or read book Essays in Public Economics written by Xiandeng Jiang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation contains two self-contained chapters. Although each essay examines a different question and each contributes to several distinct bodies of literatures, the essays are linked by findings and implications related to public economics. The first chapter contributes to dynamic contest theory by examining the effects of a relative performance based-prize scheme on the expected effort and the final results in best-of-N contests. The second chapter investigates the relation between a sitting governor's popularity and the incumbent's tax policy choices. Chapter 1 contributes to existing literature on contest and tournament. It examines the effects of a relative performance prize scheme on participants' efforts and final results in best-of-N contests. In most best-of-N contests the winner-take-all scheme is widely used to allocate prizes. Under this scheme, the prizes are awarded only to the winning individual or group. Each participant's incentive in a round is highly related to outcomes of previous rounds. If a participant losses several early rounds and has little chance of winning the contest, he or she may no longer continue to exert effort in subsequent rounds. Chapter 1 first develops a two-player best-of-N contest model with a relative performance prize scheme under which prizes are distributed based on the participants' relative performance. The essay then contrasts this model's efficiency to the winner-take-all scheme. In a simplified best-of-three contest model it is found that the relative performance prize scheme increases the participants' expected effort level only in certain conditions; furthermore, the relative performance prize scheme lowers the expected total effort of the entire contest relative to the winner-take-all scheme. Moreover, the model suggests that, contrasted with the winner-take-all scheme, the relative performance scheme raises the expected number of sets played in contests. Empirically, the first chapter investigates these theoretical predictions using a volleyball dataset from FIVB (Federation Internationale de Volleyball) World League and FIVB World Grand Prix between 2004 and 2013. The results indicate that the relative performance prize scheme only intensifies effort exerted by the participating teams; however, it does not significantly affect final results in the contest. The second chapter contributes to the literature of political competition and the policy choices of public officials. The chapter discusses whether, and to what degree, a governor's popularity affects his or her tax policies. The model predicts that holding high levels of popularity lead a governor to tend to adopt tax policies arguably contrary to the interests of independent voters. In the empirical analysis, each governor's popularity is measured by an index that was developed for this study and based on the results of presidential and gubernatorial elections. The analysis investigates the impact of a governor's popularity on her or his tax policies between 1970 and 2010. The results support the prediction that high levels of popularity may induce governors to act contrary to the interests of voters. The chapter also finds that popular Democratic governors have more incentives to increase corporate taxes while popular Republican governors are more likely to raise sales taxes. Further analysis suggests that popular term-limited governors are more likely to increase total taxes than their counterparts who are eligible for re-election. In addition to explaining the role of popularity in incumbents' policy choices, these findings improve our understanding of the interaction between voters' behavior and the political attitude of public officials in a representative democracy. In conclusion, this dissertation examines three relevant questions in public economics. The essays not only develop comprehensive theoretical frameworks for these questions but also provide abundant supporting empirical evidence for the theoretical predictions. Addressing these questions both enhances our understanding of several contemporary real-world issues and provides theoretical and practical implications for further work linking social interests and economic policies.

Download or read book Three Essays in Public Economics written by Christian Rafael Jaramillo Herrera and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Environmental and Public Economics written by Wallace E. Oates and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays honoring the work of Wallace E. Oates, contributors apply his ideas and insights to a range of problems. Chapters on environmental economics assess environmental policy in today's conservative era and analyze environmental taxes, environmental federalism, and policy instruments. Chapters on public economics investigate vouchers for private schools, capitalization, and urban growth controls. Other subjects examined include intergovernmental grants in South Africa, and public pensions in the EU. The editors are affiliated with the University of Maryland-College Park, and Resources for the Future in Washington, DC. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Essays on Economics and Economists written by R. H. Coase and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do economists tackle the problems of the economic system and give advice on public policy? Nobel laureate R.H. Coase reflects on some of the most fundamental concerns of economists over the past two centuries. In 15 essays, Coase explore the history and philosophy of economics and evaluates the contributions of a number of outstanding figures.

Download or read book Essays in Public Economics written by Jason Scott Seligman and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Public Economics written by Yu Wang and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of two essays. The common theme is Public Economics: to understand the effects of government policies in order to improve their design and to understand how special interest groups affect the local fiscal policies.

Download or read book Three Essays in Public Economics written by Jeffrey Robert Traczynski and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Public Economics written by Michael Chirico and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation consists of three chapters on topics in public economics. The first chapter examines the labor market for public school teachers in Wisconsin. By stitching together publicly available cross-sectional data to form a 20-year panel of teachers, I am able to replicate and extend the work of Hanushek, Kain and Rivkin who performed a similar analysis in Texas. The main takeaway is that teachers appear to select on wages, but that student characteristics appear more important in predicting teacher churn. In the second chapter, I present short-term analysis of a randomized-controlled trial designed to test the efficacy of active learning methods for teaching intermediate calculus to first-year college students. The results were in- conclusive, suggesting substantial heterogeneity in student preferences and aptitudes for different styles of learning. The final chapter presents the analysis of a large-scale randomized-controlled trial evaluating the potential for messaging-based nudges to elicit increased real estate tax compliance in Philadelphia. Our primary conclusions are that most proposed messaging strategies are indistinguishable from a plainly-worded reminder bill (the exception being consequentialist letters threatening repercussive action absent compliance), but that the saliency per se of a plainly-worded bill can induce late payers to remunerate more quickly.

Download or read book Essays in Public Economics written by Matias Giaccobasso Amorena and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is comprised of a series of essays in public economics, development economics, labor economics, and behavioral economics, that provide a comprehensive illustration of the core of my research agenda. In the first paper, Ifocus on the transfer side of public economics. More specifically, I study the effects of a cash transfer program on individuals' transition to adulthood. In the second and third papers, I focus on the taxation side of public economics. In the second paper, I focus on top-income earners and how they react to a change in the top personal income tax rates. Finally, in the third paper, I focus on how individuals make their tax compliance decisions, in particular, in the role of tax morale mechanisms. Collectively, this series of essays contribute to building our understanding of how individuals interact with tax and transfer policies. Empirical evidence on these interactions are key inputs for the discussion of optimal policy design.

Download or read book Three Essays in Public Economics written by Jeffrey Andrew Hemmeter and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Public Economics written by Robert Laurent Scharff and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Essays in Political Economy and International Public Finance written by Áron Kiss and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coalitions and political accountability -- Divisive politics and accountability -- Minimum taxes and repeated tax competition -- Summary in German.

Download or read book Two Essays in Public Economics written by Marianne Frances Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Three Essays in Public Economics written by Thomas Mathiasen Selden and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Explorations in Public Sector Economics written by Joshua Hall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of never-before-published papers from some of the most prominent voices in public economics. Curated by the current director of the Public Choice Society, the papers presented showcase the work of recognized leaders in the field, including a Nobel Laureate (Gary Becker), Past Presidents of the Public Choice Society (Larry Kenny, Edward Lopez), the Past President of the Southern Economic Association (Dwight Lee) and some of the most notable public choice economists (Bruce Benson, Russell Sobel, JR Clark, Art Denzau, Morris Coats, Richard Vedder). Among the broad list of topics covered are voting, education quality, environmental issues, externality theory, and public goods theory. This volume makes an important contribution to the field by making new perspectives on a variety of topics accessible to researchers. This book will be of interest to economists, political scientists, and researchers interested in public policy.

Download or read book Three Essays in Public Economics written by Matthew Kim and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: