Download or read book The Twenty year Century written by Felix G. Rohatyn and published by New York : Random House. This book was released on 1983 with total page 200 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 Public Policy Financial Economics Essays In Honor Of Professor George G Kaufman For His Lifelong Contributions To The Profession written by Douglas D Evanoff and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The central goal of this volume was to assemble outstanding scholars and policymakers in the field of financial markets and institutions and have them articulate significant market developments in their particular areas of expertise during the past few decades.Not just a celebratory volume, Public Policy and Financial Economics selected internationally recognized financial economists who have worked with Professor Kaufman during his years of scholarly research, and have a combined mastery of specialized financial markets themes and, very importantly, knowledge of public policies in the areas. All 15 chapters offer unique, innovative, and exciting expositions of several critical topics in financial economics.
Download or read book Fiscal Sociology and the Theory of Public Finance written by Richard E. Wagner and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rejecting conventional approaches, the author offers a view of public finance as one element of a broader scheme of social theorizing. The book assumes a working knowledge of the standard conceptual framework within which the theory of public finance is commonly presented.
Download or read book Essays in Public Finance and Financial Management written by John E. Petersen and published by Chatham, N.J. : Chatham House Publishers. This book was released on 1980 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Public Finance and Environmental Economics written by Radhika Goyal and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation focuses on topics concerning public finance, state capacity, and the environment. In the first chapter, we study the role of proximity to administrative power in explaining spatial inequality in access to public goods. Using a natural experiment in India that quadrupled the number of sub-districts (the lowest level of administrative jurisdiction), we explore the impact of redistribution of political power on spatial inequality of public good investment. By analyzing digitized high-resolution data encompassing approximately 10,000 villages spanning over 55 years, we demonstrate that reducing the distance to local government headquarters helps in bridging the gap in the provision of essential public amenities for remote villages, and furthermore, yields evidence of long-term improvements in state capacity. In the second chapter, we focus on turning points in tax collection. Our method detects both sustained accelerations and decelerations of tax collection (relative to GDP) in a global and historical sample of 150 countries since 1965. Turning points are prevalent (238 events in total), persistent for at least 15 years in many cases, and occur more frequently at lower levels of the country's development. We show that changes in the political environment are strong statistical predictors of accelerations, tax reforms, and economic changes less so. Decelerations appear more unpredictable than accelerations. In the third chapter, we study the ecological gains of place-based environmental measures to ramp up conservation efforts. By combining geo-referenced Indian village maps overlaid with digitized protected area maps and a fuzzy regression discontinuity design, we find that protected areas help improve forest cover. Villages located within protected areas also experienced improved economic activity, attributed in part to the growth of the tourism sector, particularly in wildlife sanctuaries. Moreover, our findings suggest that states which allocate a higher share of expenditure to the forestry sector exhibit stronger forest conservation outcomes.
Download or read book Economics of Public Finance written by and published by Atlantic Publishers & Distri. This book was released on 1984 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public Finance written by Charles Francis Bastable and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on Public Finance and Economic Development in a Historical Institutional Perspective written by Mu Li Yang and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Macroeconomic Dimensions of Public Finance written by Vito Tanzi and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does liberalization necessitate a reduced government role? Is there a residual role of government after socialism and dirigisme? This work provides indepth analysis of issues pertinent to public finance.
Download or read book Essays on Public Finance and Information Economics written by André Medeiros Sztutman and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thesis comprises three chapters on public finance and information economics. The first focuses on the interaction of imperfect information in labor markets and the tradeoffs the government faces when setting on-linear taxes. The second focuses on the role of heterogeneity in elasticities in affecting those tradeoffs. The third focuses on the imperfect information in financial markets and on how to design disclosure rules to increase the size of gains from trade in lending markets when these markets are adversely selected. The first chapter asks how optimal taxes are affected by reputation building and imperfect information in labor markets. To answer that question, I build a model of labor markets with incomplete and asymmetric information where job histories play a crucial role in transmitting information about workers' productivity, which allows us to better understand the efficiency and distributive consequences of imperfect monitoring and screening in labor markets, and the tradeoffs the government faces when setting taxes. Optimal taxes are described by generalized versions of standard redistributive and corrective taxation formulas, which depend crucially on labor wedges: the marginal contribution to output relative to the increases in lifetime earnings that result from supplying one extra unit of labor at each period. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, I find that the corrective component of taxes is likely to be large, especially at the top of the income distribution. The second chapter (joint with John Sturm) asks how income taxes should account for heterogeneity in elasticities of taxable income. We address this question with a test that passes if and only if there exists a weighted utilitarian planner for whom taxes are locally optimal. Our test incorporates standard sufficient statistics and a novel ingredient: the variance of elasticities conditional on income. Theoretically, we show that the test fails when these variances are sufficiently high. Empirically, we find they are indeed large in a panel of US tax returns. We thereby conclude, without taking a stance on redistributive preferences, that there are welfare-improving tax reforms. The increasing availability of data in credit markets may appear to make adverse selection concerns less relevant. However, when there is adverse selection, more information does not necessarily increase welfare. The third chapter (joint with Robert M. Townsend and Nicole Immorlica) provides tools for making better use of the data that is collected from potential borrowers, formulating and solving the optimal disclosure problem of an intermediary with commitment that seeks to maximize the probability of successful transactions, weighted by the size of the gains of these transactions. We show that any optimal disclosure policy needs to satisfy some simple conditions in terms of local sufficient statistics. These conditions relate prices to the price elasticities of the expected value of the loans for the investors. Empirically, we apply our method to data from the Townsend Thai Project -- a long panel dataset with rich information on credit histories, balance sheets, and income statements -- to evaluate whether it can help develop rural credit markets in Thailand, finding economically meaningful gains from adopting limited information disclosure policies. JELClassification: H2,D8,J2,I3,G2.
Download or read book Explorations in Public Sector Economics written by Joshua Hall and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-03 with total page 220 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 Political Essays on the Nature and Operation of Money Public Finances and Other Subjects written by Pelatiah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1791 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Retrospectives on Public Finance written by Carl Sumner Shoup and published by Durham : Duke University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retrospectives on Public Finance contains original analyses by internationally recognized public finance scholars, including Carl Sumner Shoup, one of the discipline's most famous practitioners. Shoup, along with Richard Musgrave and his students, pioneered the "prescriptive" or "political economy school" of public finance known for its hands-on approach and its commitment to applying theory to real world problems. Each contributor provides a retrospective on Shoup's various contributions to the field, reviewing the literature and assessing its relevance to current problems in public finance theory and policy. The essays highlight and analyze fiscal theory and public policy developments from the 1930s to the present in four areas: the Shoup tax missions to Japan, Venezuela, and Liberia; the tax mix; the expenditure mix; and macro public finance. Contributors. Lorraine Eden, Carl S. Shoup, Malcolm Gillis, Minoru Nakazato, Charles E. McLure Jr., John Bossons, Richard Goode, William Vickery, Wayne Thirsk, John Graham, Stanley Winer, W. Irwin Gillespie, Melville L. McMillan, Cliff Walsh, John G. Head, Enid Slack, Edwin G. West, Richard M. Bird, Peggy B. Musgrave, Douglas A. L. Auld, John B. Burbidge, Jack M. Mintz, John Sargent, Richard A. Musgrave
Download or read book Three Essays on Public Finance and Economics of Education written by Estelle P. Dauchy and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays in Public Economics and Local Public Finance written by Robert MacKay and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work deals with local governments and fiscal stress. In the first chapter, I analyze the response of individual housing sales prices to negative information or "news" about local public debt levels and their underlying impact on the provision of public goods and services. In particular, I use the announcement that rising levels of unfunded pension liabilities for the San Diego City Employees' Retirement System (SDCERS) were higher than previously perceived. In the second chapter, I analyze the effect of fiscal stress on local government fiscal structures. For this analysis, I focus on the sudden investment losses of nearly $1.7 billion in 1994 that led to Orange County's default on debt obligations and bankruptcy. In the third chapter, I analyze how local governments underfund their public pensions over the business cycle--where unfunded pension liabilities serve as an effective way to borrow from the public workforce. I look at changing levels of unfunded pension liabilities and the local government characteristics over the 2001 and 2008 recessions.
Download or read book Essays in Public Finance written by Kenji Wada and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
