In this article the theory of bureaucracy is used to analyze the collective choice mechamsm for determining military spending. The model integrates economies of size in military output from both the consumption (publicness) and production (scale) sides. Spillover effects on a nation's military...

This paper presents the development of an energy management strategy of a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV). In this case, a rule-based optimal controller selects the appropriate operation mode. Furthermore, advantages and drawbacks of such vehicles are compared with respect to other...

It has been argued that organizations which are unable to directly appropriate any of the firm's residual earnings tend to experience various forms of wealth-taking by managers (Alchian and Kessel, 1962). This wealth-taking has been observed in privately-owned, regulated firms (Nelson, 1980) as...

We have found that the fiscal power of a city can be increased by extension of its borders within a land area that is homogeneous with respect to earning opportunities, even when numerous rival jurisdictions exist in the area. We hypothesized that extending municipal boundaries will have a...

The empirical literature on the publicness of local government services has observed no significant degree of publicness. It is difficult to reconcile these findings with Wyckoff's conclusion that bureaucrats prefer pure public goods. Wyckoff's solution is to suggest that bureaucracy has little...

The empirical results of this paper are derived from a monopoly view of local government decisionmaking in contrast to the competitive view offered by earlier researchers. That our results are similar to earlier findings lends additional support to the conclusion that local output is largely...

[fre] L'harmonisation des taux de T.V.A. est généralement considérée comme une condition essentielle de la création du grand marché européen de 1992. Le présent texte montre qu'il n'en est rien. Il souligne en effet que les différences de taux de T.V.A. entre pays résultent...

[fre] Deux séries de facteurs sont essentiels pour comprendre le chômage français et donc pour lui apporter des solutions: —la première série de facteurs est constituée par l'ensemble des réglementations qui introduisent des rigidités sur le marché du travail et empêchent...

[fre] Parmi les différentes mesures fiscales généralement préconisées pour stimuler l'investissement — des diminutions d'impôts sur l'investissement ou sur l'épargne ou des aides fiscales à l'investissement — le présent article explique pourquoi il faut éviter les aides à...