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Public sector shock : the impact of policy retrenchment in Europe
Vaughan-Whitehead, Daniel (contributor) - 2013
1. Public sector shock in Europe : between structural reforms and quantitative adjustment / Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead -- 2. Public sector adjustment and the threat to gender equality / Jill Rubery -- 3. Early application of fiscal austerity measures in the Baltic states / Jaan Masso and Kerly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420124
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Recent developments in public finance
Tanzi, Vito - 2011
Estevadeordal, Brian Frantz and Tam Robert Nguyen (eds), Regional Public Goods: From Theory to Practice, Chapter 1, Washington, DC …, Real Tax Revenue, and the Case for Inflationary Finance: Theory with an Application to Argentina', International Monetary … The Theory of Incentives: The Principal- Agent Model, Chapter 1, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 7 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852288
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Fiscal federalism and political decentralization : lessons from Spain, Germany, and Canada
Durán, José María (contributor);  … - 2008
This book analyzes political decentralization and fiscal federalism in Canada and Germany, both traditional federal countries, and in Spain, a unitarian country engaged in the last two decades in a process of decentralization. Three key issues required for a well designed financing system are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850968
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Financing decentralized expenditures : an international comparison of grants
Ahmad, Ehtisham (ed.) - 1997
Financing Decentralized Expenditures presents new original research papers on the structure of intergovernmental fiscal relations in virtually all types of countries and the design and implementation of transfer mechanisms between different levels of government. In developing, transition, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473991
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Fiscal sociology and the theory of public finance : an exploratory essay
Wagner, Richard E. - 2007
Contrasting architectonics for a theory of public finance -- Property, state and public finance -- State and market : a … as a polycentric process of interaction, just as is a market economy. The theory of markets and the theory of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420096
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Tax compliance and tax morale : a theoretical and empirical analysis
Torgler, Benno - 2007
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012420106
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Advancing public goods
Touffut, Jean-Philippe (contributor) - Cournot Centre for Economic Studies <Paris, France)> / … - 2006
The studies cover topics in the conceptualization, classification and stratification of public goods. Also examined are public institutional design, global economic institutions and partnership typologies. Individual papers address the financing, regulatory, organizational and legal aspects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011850891
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Handbook of fiscal federalism
Ahmad, Ehtisham (ed.); Brosio, Giorgio (ed.) - 2006
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851106
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Competition in the provision of local public goods : single function jurisdictions and individual choice
Reifschneider, Alexandra Petermann - 2006
The central purpose of this book is to analyse the optimal allocation of local public goods or services (for example garbage collection, police, fire brigades and medical services) in large urban agglomerations and the allocation consequences of increasing competition in the provision of them....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851526
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Political economy and public finance : the role of political economy in the theory and practice of public economics
Shibata, Hirofumi (contributor);  … - International Institute of Public Finance <Linz, … - 2002
policy process? And what have we learned about the theory and practice of public finance from three decades of empirical … we learned about the theory and practice of public finance from three decades of empirical research on public choice …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851951