We study the decision problems faced by a city authority (CA) who focuses on two different objectives in her attempt to attract members of the creative class to her city by providing a local public good (LPG). First, we compute the maximum tax that a creative class member is willing to pay to...

We study the decision problems faced by a city authority (CA) who focuses on two different objectives in her attempt to attract members of the creative class to her city by providing a local public good (LPG). First, we compute the maximum tax that a creative class member is willing to pay to...

We study environmental policy in a two nation world in which there is strategic behavior by governments and polluting firms. Two issues are analyzed. First, the conditions under which the conduct of unilateral environmental policy by a nation in a Bertrand game will immiserize that nation, are...