Public Goods, Environmental Externalities and Fiscal Competition

, by Chander, Parkash; Dreze, Jacques; Lovell, C. knox; Mintz, Jack

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ISBN: 9781441938022 | 1441938028
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Copyright: 11/1/2005

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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.

Foreword	p. xi
List of co-authors	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Decentralized Resource Allocation Processes for Public and Private Goods	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
Dynamic processes for public goods: an institution-oriented survey	p. 9
Surplus-sharing local games in dynamic exchange processes	p. 49
Exchange processes, the core and competitive allocations	p. 63
Commodity exchanges as gradient processes	p. 81
Environment, Public Goods and Externalities	p. 97
Introduction	p. 101
Dynamic processes for achieving optimality in international environmental problems
An economic model of international negotiations relating to transfrontier pollution	p. 107
Theoretical foundations of negotiations and cost sharing in transfrontier pollution problems	p. 123
The acid rain game as a resource allocation process, with application to negotiations between Finland, Russia and Estonia	p. 135
The <> as a solution concept for international environmental agreements
The core of an economy with multilateral environmental externalities	p. 153
A core-theoretic solution for the design of cooperative agreements on transfrontier pollution	p. 177
The Kyoto Protocol: an economic and game theoretic interpretation	p. 195
Dynamic cooperative games and stock pollutants
Simulating coalitionally stable burden sharing agreements for the climate change problem	p. 217
Transfers to sustain dynamic core-theoretic cooperation in international stock pollutant control	p. 251
Efficiency Analysis	p. 275
Introduction	p. 279
FDH and its early applications
Measuring labor-efficiency in post offices	p. 285
On FDH efficiency analysis: some methodological issues and applications to retail banking, courts and urban transit	p. 311
Assessing and explaining the performance of public enterprises: some recent evidence from the productive efficiency viewpoint	p. 343
Dynamics
Non-frontier measures of efficiency, progress and regress for time series data	p. 373
Nonparametric efficiency, progress and regress measures for panel data: methodological aspects	p. 395
Dominance
Efficiency Dominance Analysis (EDA): basic methodology	p. 431
Fiscal Competition and Optimality	p. 443
Introduction	p. 445
Commodity tax competition between member states of a federation: equilibrium and efficiency	p. 449
On Pareto improving commodity tax changes under fiscal competition	p. 491
Optimality properties of alternative systems of taxation of foreign capital income	p. 507
Tax interaction dynamics among Belgian municipalities 1984-1997	p. 533
Bibliography of Henry Tulkens (Through 2004)	p. 557
Author Index	p. 569
Subject Index	p. 575
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