: Parkash Chander, Jacques Drèze, C.Knox Lovell, Jack Mintz
: Parkash Chander, Jacques Drèze, C. Knox Lovell, Jack Mintz
: Public Goods, Environmental Externalities and Fiscal Competition Selected Papers on Competition, Efficiency, and Cooperation in Public Economics by Henry Tulkens
: Springer-Verlag
: 9780387255347
: 1
: CHF 132.60
:
: Volkswirtschaft
: English
: 588
: Wasserzeichen
: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
: PDF

The 22 papers in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The volume presents contemporary analysis of Tulkens' classic papers on public sector economics. The collection is structured in four parts: I. Decentralized resource allocation processes for public and private goods - II. Environment, public goods and externalities - III. Efficiency analysis - IV. Fiscal competition and optimality.

Table of Contents6
Foreword9
List of co-authors13
Acknowledgments14
PART I DECENTRALISED RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROCESSES FOR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE GOODS16
INTRODUCTION18
Chapter 1 DYNAMIC PROCESSES FOR PUBLIC GOODS: AN INSTITUTION- ORIENTED SURVEY23
Chapter 2 SURPLUS-SHARING LOCAL GAMES IN DYNAMIC EXCHANGE PROCESSES63
Chapter 3 EXCHANGE PROCESSES, THE CORE AND COMPETITIVE ALLOCATIONS77
Chapter 4 COMMODITY EXCHANGES AS GRADIENT PROCESSES94
PART II ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC GOODS AND EXTERNALITIES109
INTRODUCTION112
Chapter 5 AN ECONOMIC MODEL OF INTERNATIONAL NEGOTIATIONS RELATING TO TRANSFRONTIER POLLUTION117
Chapter 6 THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NEGOTIATIONS AND COST SHARING IN TRANSFRONTIER POLLUTION PROBLEMS132
Chapter 7 THE ACID RAIN GAME AS A RESOURCE ALLOCATION PROCESS, WITH APPLICATION TO NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN FINLAND, RUSSIA AND ESTONIA144
Chapter 8 THE CORE OF AN ECONOMY WITH MULTILATERAL ENVIRONMENTAL EXTERNALITIES162
Chapter 9 A CORE-THEORETIC SOLUTION FOR THE DESIGN OF COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS ON TRANSFRONTIER POLLUTION185
Chapter 10 THE KYOTO PROTOCOL: AN ECONOMIC AND GAME THEORETIC INTERPRETATION202
Chapter 11 SIMULATING COALITIONALLY STABLE BURDEN SHARING AGREEMENTS FOR THE CLIMATE CHANGE PROBLEM223
Chapter 12 TRANSFERS TO SUSTAIN DYNAMIC CORE- THEORETIC COOPERATION IN INTERNATIONAL STOCK POLLUTANT CONTROL256
PART III EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS280
INTRODUCTION283
Chapter 13 MEASURING LABOR-EFFICIENCY IN POST OFFICES289
Chapter 14 ON FDH EFFICIENCY ANALYSIS: SOME METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES AND APPLICATIONS TO RETAIL BANKING, COURTS AND URBAN TRANSIT314
Chapter 15 ASSESSING AND EXPLAINING THE PERFORMANCE OF PUBLIC ENTERPRISES: SOME RECENT EVIDENCE FROM THE PRODUCTIVE EFFICIENCY VIEWPOINT346
Chapter 16 NON- FRONTIER MEASURES OF EFFICIENCY, PROGRESS AND REGRESS FOR TIME SERIES DATA376
Chapter 17 NONPARAMETRIC EFFICIENCY, PROGRESS AND REGRESS MEASURES FOR PANEL DATA: METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS398
Chapter 18 EFFICIENCY DOMINANCE ANALYSIS (EDA): BASIC METHODOLOGY433
PART IV FISCAL COMPETITION AND OPTIMALITY445
INTRODUCTION447
Chapter 19 COMMODITY TAX COMPETITION BETWEEN MEMBER STATES OF A FEDERATION: EQUILIBRIUM AND EFFICIENCY451
Chapter 20 ON PARETO IMPROVING COMMODITY TAX CHANGES UNDER FISCAL COMPETITION492
Chapter 21 OPTIMALITY PROPERTIES OF ALTERNATIVE SYSTEMS OF TAXATION OF FOREIGN CAPITAL INCOME508
Chapter 22 TAX INTERACTION DYNAMICS AMONG BELGIAN MUNICIPALITIES 1984– 1997534
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HENRY TULKENS ( THROUGH 2004)558
AUTHOR INDEX569
SUBJECT INDEX574