This books provides basic information about the historical, ideological and legal foundations of the GDR, its political and economic and education system

The paper seeks to quantify the effects of macro development and fiscal indicators on the agriculturalproducer support in the OECD countries during the period 1986-2009. The study is complementaryto the body of microeconomic research that highlights the importance of support toagriculture...

The twenty-two papers collected in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens, an applied theorist, on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The collection is structured in four parts: I. Decentralized resource allocation processes for public and private goods - II....

This dissertation analysis the consequences of interjurisdictional competition for a mobile tax base for the efficiency of the public sector and the growth potential of a jurisdiction.

This paper investigates the ratio of general long-term debt to general capital assets’ influence on municipal credit ratings – signals of risk to investors – and coupon rates. Given current uncertainty levels in credit markets, it is paramount that low risk be signaled to sell debt and...

addresses two long-standing positive questions in public finance: 1) Why is the property tax, despite widespread popular complaints against its fairness, the almost exclusive tax instrument used by local governments; and 2) why do we consistently observe higher levels of governments (states)...

The first paper of this dissertation utilizes unique data on teachers' union election certifications in Iowa, Indiana, and Minnesota to analyze the effect of teachers' unions on education production. I find teachers' unions have no impact on teacher pay, class sizes, or per-student expenditures,...

This thesis examines the financing and construction arrangements of the recently designed Airport Link project in Brisbane, Australia. The central hypothesis of the thesis is that the equity risk premium, combined with the public nature of toll roads, makes private financing of this kind of...

This dissertation considers two aspects of the study of fiscal institutions: the importance of understanding their evolution and the need for analyzing their specific form. Chapter 1 addresses the tension between commitment and flexibility in the design of institutions and stresses the...