Die Arbeit untersucht, welche Auswirkungen der demografische Wandel auf die Haushalte kreisangehöriger Gemeinden in Sachsen-Anhalt hat. Bevölkerungsverluste führen zu steigenden Pro-Kopf-Ausgaben in nahezu allen Bereichen, was die Remanenzkostenproblematik öffentlicher Leistungserbringung...

The paper shows that interjurisdictional competition for mobile factors of production forces the government to raise the efficiency of the public sector and, thus, helps to tame Leviathan governments. However, this result is derived under some restrictive assumptions concerning the kind of tax...

Defining global public goods / Inge Kaul, Isabelle Grunberg, and Marc A. Stern -- Intergenerational public goods: strategies, efficiency, and institutions / Todd Sandler -- The political economy of international cooperation / Lisa L. Martin -- Equity in a global public goods framework / J. Mohan...