Public Economics

Burkhard Heer is professor of public economics at the University of Augsburg, Germany. Previously, he was professor of economics at the Universities of Bolzano, Bamberg, and Innsbruck. Burkhard Heer received his Phd in economics from the University of Cologne, Germany, in 1996. He was visiting scholar at various institutions including Georgetown University, Stanford University, Fordham University at New York, University of Quebec at Montreal, University Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Federal Reserve Bank at St. Louis, and a summer intern at the International Monetary Fund in Washington, D.C. Burkhard Heer is also affiliated with the Center for Economic Studies (CESifo), Munich. His research interests include public economics and macroeconomics. He also published a Springer textbook on “Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling” with Alfred Maußner.

• Introduction.- Part I: Useful Models: Ramsey Model.- The Overlapping Generations Model.- Part II: Fiscal Policy: Goverment Consumption- Income Taxation.- Part III: Social Security, Demographics, and Debt: Pensions.- Public Debt.- Name Index. Subject Index.