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This major Handbook addresses fiscal relations between different levels of government under the general rubric of "fiscal federalism", providing a review of the latest literature as well as an invaluable guide for practitioners and policy makers seeking informed policy options. The contributors...
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In this broad and illuminating work, experts on public finance discuss innovations in state and local tax policy that have been implemented or considered over the course of the last three decades. The authors provide original work that analyzes whether state and local governments have 'gone...
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The question of why citizens pay their taxes has attracted increased attention in the tax compliance literature of late. In this book, Benno Torgler considers the evidence that suggests that enforcement efforts cannot fully explain the high degree of tax compliance within society. To attempt to...
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Struggles over what a region receives, or should receive, from the budget of the central government are common to many countries. Discussions often focus on the measures of 'net fiscal flows' or 'fiscal balances' provided by the government or other actors. This unique book shows just how these...
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Despite being an integral part of modern economic science, the subject of financial economics has deep historical roots … basis for the study of modern financial economics. By the time The Wealth of Nations had appeared, financial economics …, by the latter part of the 18th century financial economics had witnessed contributions by the likes of Abraham de Moivre …
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institutional approach to industrial organization and post Keynesian monetary theory. The author concludes that stability in …
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This path-breaking book considers the recent trend for governments to look increasingly to private sector finance, provided by private enterprises constructing and managing public infrastructure facilities in partnership with government bodies
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This book takes a solid step toward a systematic analysis of the implications of microfinance for the role and regulation of capital markets. The authors address integration of capital markets with microfinance, technological innovations such as the use of mobile phone technology, the...
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in international economics as well as policymakers and practitioners …
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academics (postgraduate and above) in the fields of political economy, economic development and international economics …
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