Advances in Public Economics

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boadway, Robin (Editor), Raj, Baldev (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Heidelberg Physica 2000, 2000
Edition:1st ed. 2000
Series:Studies in Empirical Economics
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I Introduction and overview
  • Contemporary public economics
  • II Economics of public programs
  • The changing economic status of U.S. disabled men:Trends and their determinants, 1982-1991
  • The role of labour demand elasticities in tax incidence analysis with heterogeneous labour.
  • III Tax leakages and efficiency
  • Modelling the hidden economy and the tax-gap in New Zealand
  • Tax efficiency in selected Indian states
  • IV Do governments act in the interest of their constituents?
  • Tax reforms and the growth of government
  • Empirics of the median voter hypothesis in Japan
  • v Optimality of the public capital stock
  • Estimates of optimal public capital stocks in Japan using a public investment discount rate framework
  • On the long run effect of public capital on aggregate output: Estimation and sensitivity analysis