Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition

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CONTENTS; Foreword; List of co-authors; Acknowledgments; PART I DECENTRALIZED RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROCESSES FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GOODS; Introduction by Jacques Drèze; Chapter 1 Dynamic processes for public goods: an institution-oriented survey; Chapter 2 Surplus-sharing local games in dynamic exchange processes; Chapter 3 Exchange processes, the core and competitive allocations; Chapter 4 Commodity exchanges as gradient processes; PART II ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES; Introduction by Parkash Chander

Chapter 5 An economic model of international negotiations relating to transfrontier pollutionChapter 6 Theoretical foundations of negotiations and cost sharing in transfrontier pollution problems; Chapter 7 The acid rain game as a resource allocation process, with application to negotiations between Finland, Russia and Estonia; Chapter 8 The core of an economy with multilateral environmental externalities; Chapter 9 A core-theoretic solution for the design of cooperative agreements on transfrontier pollution; Chapter 10 The Kyoto Protocol: an economic and game theoretic interpretation

Chapter 11 Simulating coalitionally stable burden sharing agreements for the climate change problemChapter 12 Transfers to sustain dynamic core-theoretic cooperation in international stock pollutant control; PART III EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS; Introduction by C. Knox Lovell; Chapter 13 Measuring labor-efficiency in post offices; Chapter 14 On FDH efficiency analysis: some methodological issues and applications to retail banking, courts and urban transit; Chapter 15 Assessing and explaining the performance of public enterprises: some recent evidence from the productive efficiency viewpoint

Chapter 16 Non-frontier measures of efficiency, progress and regress for time series dataChapter 17 Nonparametric efficiency, progress and regress measures for panel data: methodological aspects; Chapter 18 Efficiency Dominance Analysis (EDA): basic methodology; PART IV FISCAL COMPETITION AND OPTIMALITY; Introduction by Jack Mintz; Chapter 19 Commodity tax competition between member states of a federation: equilibrium and efficiency; Chapter 20 On Pareto improving commodity tax changes under fiscal competition

Chapter 21 Optimality properties of alternative systems of taxation of foreign capital incomeChapter 22 Tax interaction dynamics among Belgian municipalities 1984-1997; Bibliography of Henry Tulkens (Through 2004); Author Index; Subject Index;

10.1007/b135529 [DOI]

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