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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...
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Modelling the composition of government expenditure
Creedy, John - 2011
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Economic rights and environmental wrongs : property rights for the common good
Devlin, Rose Anne - 1998
The crisis of environmental degradation has createcharemd an immense volume of literature which focuses on controlling environmental problems. Economic Rights and Environmental Wrongs goes one step further to extend and complement the current debates
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011851479
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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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Fiscal policy and environmental welfare : modelling interjurisdictional competition
Bayındır-Upmann, Thorsten - 1998 - Revised version of the author's thesis
In this innovative book the author examines the link between environmental, trade and industrial policies within an interregional setting. He models how regional governments, using tax rates on real capital and pollutant emissions, determine policies to favour their residents in terms of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014473840
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Contingent valuation and endangered species : methodological issues and applications
Jakobsson, Kristin M.; Dragun, Andrew K. - 1996
Contingent Valuation and Endangered Species provides a comprehensive and rigorous examination of the contingent valuation method as applied to the profound social problem of biodiversity conservation. The contingent valuation method allows the explicit identification and valuation of the non-use...
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Public goods, redistribution and rent seeking
Tullock, Gordon - 2005
1. Some difficulties in the existing theory of externalities -- 2. Coase and all that -- 3. More on why government …
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Integrated assessment and management of public resources
Perali, Federico (contributor);  … - 2006
This multidisciplinary work explores ways of making environmental policy decisions in managing public goods and natural parks with the goal of maximizing economic benefits to society. The contributors to the volume seek the best strategies for improving the environmental sustainability and...
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The economics of evaluation in public programs
Link, Albert N. - 2011
. Weisbrod (1981), 'Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Controlled Experiment: Treating the Mentally Ill', Journal of Human Resources, XVI … competing visions of benefit-cost analysis', Land Economics, 85, 3-23. -- Bewley, T.F. (1981), 'A critique of Tiebout's theory …), 'Profit maximizing communities and the theory of local public expenditures', Journal of Urban Economics, 5, 263 …
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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 …
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