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Political Competition and the Study of Public Economics
Av Stanley L. Winer, J. Stephen Ferris
Häftad, 2022
311 kr
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Why is an understanding of political competition essential for the study of public economics and public policy generally? How can political competition be described and understood, and how does it differ from its strictly economic counterpart? What are the implications of the fact that policy …
Economic Principles of Commodity Taxation
Av Vidar Christiansen, Stephen Smith
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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The authors provide a broad overview of economic aspects of commodity taxation, focussing in particular on theory and on policy applications in OECD countries. Some major papers in public economics have discussed whether these taxes should be levied at a uniform rate, or whether different …
The Public Economics of Changing Longevity
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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Our societies are witnessing a steady increase in longevity. This demographic evolution is accompanied by some convergence across countries, but at the same time substantial longevity inequalities persist within nations across income classes. This Element aims to survey some crucial implications of …
Benefit-Cost Analysis of Air Pollution, Energy, and Climate Regulations
Av Kerry Krutilla, John D. Graham
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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This element offers a review and synthesis of the research on economic methods for evaluating regulations that improve air quality, save energy, and reduce climate risks. The intended audience is regulators and other constituencies interested in the nexus between scholarship and practice; analysts …
The Economics of Social Protection
Häftad, 2023
374 kr
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The objective of this Element is to provide an analysis of social protection from an economic perspective. It relies on tools and methods widely used in public and insurance economics and comprises four main section besides the introduction. The first section is devoted to the design of social …
The Economics of Social Protection
Inbunden, 2023
1106 kr
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The objective of this Element is to provide an analysis of social protection from an economic perspective. It relies on tools and methods widely used in public and insurance economics and comprises four main section besides the introduction. The first section is devoted to the design of social …
Family Taxation
Inbunden, 2025
763 kr
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This Element seeks to provide an in-depth survey of the papers written on the optimal taxation of the incomes of the members of family households, as opposed to households with just a single individual, over the period beginning with the early 1980s and ending in the late 2010s.This literature, …
Mixed Oligopoly and Public Enterprises
Inbunden, 2024
918 kr
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This Element offers a review and synthesis of the theoretical analysis of mixed oligopoly, that is a hybrid market structure in which public (state-owned) and private firms interact, using a variety of strategic variables. A distinguishing feature of a mixed oligopoly is that firms have different …
Public Health Care
Av Luigi Siciliani, Kurt Brekke m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
854 kr
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This Element discusses the role of the government in the financing and provision of public health care. It summarises core knowledge and findings in the economics literature, giving a state-of-the-art account of public health care. The first section is devoted to health system financing. It …
The Marginal Cost of Public Funds
Av Per-Olov Johansson, Bengt Kriström
Inbunden, 2025
763 kr
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In a perfect market economy, the cost of raising another euro of tax revenue equals one. However, once distortionary taxes on goods and factors are introduced, the marginal cost of public funds, MCPF, typically deviates from one. Often it exceeds one, but one can also find cases where it falls …
The Marginal Cost of Public Funds
Av Per-Olov Johansson, Bengt Kriström
Häftad, 2025
269 kr
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In a perfect market economy, the cost of raising another euro of tax revenue equals one. However, once distortionary taxes on goods and factors are introduced, the marginal cost of public funds, MCPF, typically deviates from one. Often it exceeds one, but one can also find cases where it falls …
State-Owned Enterprises in Developed Market Economies
Theory and Empirics
Av Chiara F. Del Bo, Massimo Florio m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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After briefly reviewing the received doctrine prior to the waves of privatisations beginning in the 1980s, this Element offers a survey of various analytical frameworks on State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) from the perspective of applied welfare economics. The focus then shifts to a positive analysis …
State-Owned Enterprises in Developed Market Economies
Theory and Empirics
Av Chiara F. Del Bo, Massimo Florio m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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After briefly reviewing the received doctrine prior to the waves of privatisations beginning in the 1980s, this Element offers a survey of various analytical frameworks on State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) from the perspective of applied welfare economics. The focus then shifts to a positive analysis …
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Av Per-Olov Johansson, Bengt Kriström
Häftad, 2018
317 kr
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This Element on cost-benefit analysis provides a summary of recent theoretical and empirical developments and summarizes state-of-the-art stated-preference and revealed-preference valuation methods. The Element discusses how to assess small (or marginal) as well as large (or non-marginal) projects …
Welfare States
Achievements and Threats
Häftad, 2019
317 kr
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The traditionally, and wrongly, imagined vulnerabilities of the welfare state are economic. The true threats are demographic and political. The most frequently imagined threat is that the welfare state package reduces the level and growth of GDP. It does not, according to broad historical patterns …
Inequality and Optimal Redistribution
Av Hannu Tanninen, Matti Tuomala m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
311 kr
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From the 1980s onward, income inequality increased in many advanced countries. It is very difficult to account for the rise in income inequality using the standard labour supply/demand explanation. Fiscal redistribution has become less effective in compensating increasing inequalities since the …
Public Health Care
Av Luigi Siciliani, Kurt Brekke m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
275 kr
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This Element discusses the role of the government in the financing and provision of public health care. It summarises core knowledge and findings in the economics literature, giving a state-of-the-art account of public health care. The first section is devoted to health system financing. It …
Mixed Oligopoly and Public Enterprises
Häftad, 2024
317 kr
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This Element offers a review and synthesis of the theoretical analysis of mixed oligopoly, that is a hybrid market structure in which public (state-owned) and private firms interact, using a variety of strategic variables. A distinguishing feature of a mixed oligopoly is that firms have different …
The Economics and Regulation of Network Industries
Telecommunications and Beyond
Häftad, 2021
311 kr
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Have you ever wondered how your telephone company or Internet service provider can give you access to almost all people in the world, or how electricity suppliers can compete with each other if there is only one electric supply line passing through your street? This Element deals with the economics …
The Role of the Corporate Tax
Av Roger Gordon, Sarada
Häftad, 2019
317 kr
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Existing corporate taxes distort many aspects of firm behavior. To the extent that the corporate tax rate is lower than personal tax rates, taxes favor corporate activity, and favor retaining earnings rather than paying earnings out to employees and investors. Multinationals can even avoid these …
Empirical Fiscal Federalism
Av Federico Revelli, Emanuele Bracco
Häftad, 2021
317 kr
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Fiscal federalism has long been an important topic of inquiry in applied public economics, and interest in the functioning of intergovernmental fiscal relationships in multi-tiered public sector structures does not seem to be fading. Rather, the recent economic downturn and sovereign debt crisis …
Tax Policy
Principles and Lessons
Av Robin Boadway, Katherine Cuff
Häftad, 2022
320 kr
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Tax policies are informed by principles developed in the tax theory and policy literature. This Element surveys the policy lessons that emerge from optimal tax analysis since the 1970s. This Element begins with the evolution of tax policy principles from the comprehensive income approach to the …
Family Taxation
Häftad, 2025
269 kr
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This Element seeks to provide an in-depth survey of the papers written on the optimal taxation of the incomes of the members of family households, as opposed to households with just a single individual, over the period beginning with the early 1980s and ending in the late 2010s.This literature, …
Behavioral Science and Public Policy
Häftad, 2020
308 kr
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Behavioral science is playing an increasing role in public policy, and it is raising new questions about fundamental issues - the role of government, freedom of choice, paternalism, and human welfare. In diverse nations, public officials are using behavioral findings to combat serious problems - …
