Robin Boadway / Baldev Raj (eds.)

Advances in Public Economics

Herausgegeben:Boadway, Robin; Raj, Baldev

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

to tackle problemsofeconomic policy in a more effectivemanner.Giventhattheevaluationofpolicyoptions requiresasoundunderstandingofboththenatureandmag nitudeofeconomic,behaviouralandinstitutionalconstraints Preface VI thatarefaced bygovernments,there isaneedforempirical analysisofunderlyingpolicyquestionsandissues. Thiscollectionofessays on empirical finance indicates thatempiricalassessmentispossibleusingarichanddiverse setofempirical approaches. The various papers exemplify someofthevarioustechniquesthatcan beused byapplied researchersforsheddinglightonthequestionsofinterestin appliedpublicfinanceanditsapplications.

Produktdetails

• Studies in Empirical Economics
• Verlag: Physica / Physica-Verlag / Physica-Verlag HD
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-7908-1283-1
• 2000.
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 160mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 378g
• ISBN-13: 9783790812831
• ISBN-10: 3790812838
• Artikelnr.: 08799820

Autorenporträt

Robin Boadway is D. C. Smith Chair in Economics at Queens University, Kingston, Ontario. He is author or editor of many books.

Inhaltsangabe

I Introduction and overview.- Contemporary public economics.- II Economics of public programs.- The changing economic status of U.S. disabled men:Trends and their determinants, 1982-1991.- The role of labour demand elasticities in tax incidence analysis with heterogeneous labour..- III Tax leakages and efficiency.- Modelling the hidden economy and the tax-gap in New Zealand.- Tax efficiency in selected Indian states.- IV Do governments act in the interest of their constituents?.- Tax reforms and the growth of government.- Empirics of the median voter hypothesis in Japan.- v Optimality of the public capital stock.- Estimates of optimal public capital stocks in Japan using a public investment discount rate framework.- On the long run effect of public capital on aggregate output: Estimation and sensitivity analysis.