In essay one, we examine nonlocalized competition in interest taxation between an arbitrary number of countries. Our focus is on the role of relative number of locked-in investors in asymmetric tax competition. We find that in equilibrium, small countries have advantages in tax competition. In...

This dissertation examines the Nash equilibrium in giving by private individuals when the gifts are used to produce a pure public good which benefits everyone. A new approach to proving the existence of equilibrium is developed that relaxes the conditions of Bergstrom et al., 1986 by requiring...

The two-volume work is intended to function as a textbook for graduate students in economics as well as a reference work for economic scholars. Assuming only the minimal mathematics background required of every second-year graduate student in economics, these two volumes provide a self-contained...