, experts discuss the appropriateness and effectiveness of using public policy to influence fertility decisions. Contributors … discuss the general feasibility of public interventions in the area of fertility, analyze fertility patterns and policy design … choices that provide an overview of a broad array of child-related policy instruments in a number of OECD and EU countries …

, fulfillment, and rates of indigenous innovation. Many offer policy recommendations, which range from developing institutions that …

corporate governance. That's unfortunate, because good regulatory policy, he claims, can make markets and firms work efficiently …, and policy. …

industrial and environnmental policy in the United States. Under the banner of “green jobs,†clean energy industries and labor …, environmental, and antipoverty organizations have forged “blue-green†alliances and achieved some policy victories, most notably … characterized by a more defensive posture with respect to trade and a more active industrial policy. After describing federal green …

The Earth is getting warmer. Yet, as Hans-Werner Sinn points out in this provocative book, the dominant policy approach …--which aims to curb consumption of fossil energy--has been ineffective. Despite policy makers’ efforts to promote alternative …

stability of the financial markets and possible policy options to reduce future vulnerability to crises, including Glass … national interests in industrial policy; reforming and preserving the welfare state in the face of unemployment, population …

of taxes on economic decisions and equilibrium outcomes, as well as useful insights into how policy makers should design … taxes. It covers such issues of central policy importance as taxation of income from capital, environmental taxation, and … environmental taxation in both theory and policy chapters. The book is aimed at graduate students or advanced undergraduates taking …

unfortunately combined to bring down the global financial systems. And policy makers? They did everything they could, given their … write, is simply not designed to make policy choices on behalf of the public. It is virtually impossible for the public and …

informing and influencing tax policy design. Scholars of public economics formulate models of optimal tax-transfer systems based … the lessons it holds for tax policy. He describes the theoretical challenges posed by recent findings in such fields as … inform tax policy. …