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April 2009, Volume 11, Issue 2
- 233-250 Infrastructure Investment and Maintenance Expenditure: Optimal Allocation Rules in a Growing Economy
by Pierre‐Richard Agénor - 251-279 Credit Availability and Capital Crunch: On the Role of the Heterogeneity of the Banking System
by Olivier Bruno - 281-296 On the Strategic Use of Representative Democracy in International Agreements
by Grégoire Rota Graziosi - 297-310 A Distortive Wage Tax and a Countervailing Commuting Subsidy
by Matthias Wrede - 311-342 Optimal Income Taxation and Public Good Provision with Endogenous Interest Groups
by Felix Bierbrauer
February 2009, Volume 11, Issue 1
- 1-8 Sharing the Cost of a Public Good without Subsidies
by Marc Fleurbaey & Yves Sprumont - 9-25 Intermediate Preferences and Behavioral Conformity in Large Games
by Guilherme Carmona - 27-36 Dynamic Voluntary Provision of Public Goods: A Generalization
by Kenji Fujiwara & Norimichi Matsueda - 37-53 Production and Abatement Distortions under Noisy Green Taxes
by Hongli Feng & David A. Hennessy - 55-87 Scholarships or Student Loans? Subsidizing Higher Education in the Presence of Moral Hazard
by Alessandro Cigno & Annalisa Luporini - 89-118 Repeated Contests with Asymmetric Information
by Johannes Münster - 119-158 Free‐Riding and Cooperation in Environmental Games
by Ana Espinola‐Arredondo - 159-176 Taxing Deficits to Restrain Government Spending
by Nikolai Stähler
December 2008, Volume 10, Issue 6
- 985-1010 On the Impact of Innovation on the Marginal Abatement Cost Curve
by Rabah Amir & Marc Germain & Vincent Van Steenberghe - 1011-1031 The Repugnant Conclusion and Utilitarianism under Domain Restrictions
by Leslie Shiell - 1033-1068 Equilibria with Increasing Returns: Sufficient Conditions on Bounded Production Allocations
by J. M. Bonnisseau & A. Jamin - 1069-1083 Ideological Divide within the Cabinet and Public Spending
by Anna Rubinchik - 1085-1094 Welfare‐ and Revenue‐Enhancing Tariff and Tax Reform under Imperfect Competition
by Takumi Naito & Kenzo Abe - 1095-1113 Endogenous Categorization in Insurance
by Mattias K. Polborn - 1115-1141 Imperfect Competition and Corporate Governance
by David Kelsey & Frank Milne - 1143-1168 Fiscal Discipline as a Social Norm: The European Stability Pact
by Jean‐Paul Fitoussi & Francesco Saraceno - 1169-1187 A Class of Two‐Group Polarization Measures
by Walter Bossert & William Schworm
October 2008, Volume 10, Issue 5
- 717-742 The Credit Channel of Capital Tax Policy
by Holger Strulik - 743-763 International Asset Trade, Capital Income Taxation, and Specialization Patterns
by Koichi Futagami & Akihiko Kaneko & Yoshiyasu Ono & Akihisa Shibata - 765-784 Backward Intergenerational Goods and Endogenous Fertility
by John William Hatfield - 785-799 The Group Size Paradox Revisited
by Paul Pecorino & Akram Temimi - 801-826 Modesty May Pay!
by Michael Finus & Stefan Maus - 827-857 Existence and Uniqueness of Nash Equilibrium in Electoral Competition Games: The Hybrid Case
by Alejandro Saporiti - 859-871 Bargaining with Rent Seekers
by Amihai Glazer - 873-889 Living Standard, Social Welfare, and the Redistribution of Income in a Heterogeneous Population
by Udo Ebert - 891-922 Playing for Your Own Audience: Extremism in Two‐Party Elections
by Gábor Virág - 923-952 Investment in Health Technologies in a Competitive Model with Real Options
by Paolo Pertile
August 2008, Volume 10, Issue 4
- 475-501 Diversity and Affirmative Action in Higher Education
by Dennis Epple & Richard Romano & Holger Sieg - 503-527 Bureaucratic Advice and Political Governance
by Robin Boadway & Motohiro Sato - 529-545 Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good: Continuous‐Strategy Equilibria in the Private‐Information Subscription Game
by Stefano Barbieri & David A. Malueg - 547-561 Standard Tax Competition and Increasing Returns
by Signe Krogstrup - 563-594 Dynamic Inefficiency in an Overlapping Generation Economy with Pollution and Health Costs
by María‐José Gutiérrez - 595-622 Fiscal Policy, Congestion, and Endogenous Growth
by Manuel A. Gómez - 623-642 Bargaining by Limiting Cooperation: Withholding Consent for the Level of a Public Good
by Peter S. Burton - 643-671 Tax Overpayments, Tax Evasion, and Book‐Tax Differences
by Laszlo Goerke - 673-684 Competition over Time‐Inconsistent Consumers
by Daniel Gottlieb - 685-716 Political Cycles: Issue Ownership and the Opposition Advantage
by Raphaël Soubeyran & Pascal Gautier
June 2008, Volume 10, Issue 3
- 329-349 Are Progressive Income Taxes Stabilizing?
by Nicolas L. Dromel & Patrick A. Pintus - 351-370 Unequal Contributions from Symmetric Agents in a Local Interaction Model
by Luca Corazzini & Ugo Gianazza - 371-382 Detection Avoidance and Deterrence: Some Paradoxical Arithmetic
by Eric Langlais - 383-397 Useful Government Spending and Macroeconomic (In)stability under Balanced‐Budget Rules
by Jang‐Ting Guo & Sharon G. Harrison - 399-421 Tax Rate Variability and Public Spending as Sources of Indeterminacy
by Teresa Lloyd‐Braga & Leonor Modesto & Thomas Seegmuller - 423-439 Effectiveness of Weighted Majority Rules with Random Decision Power Distribution
by Daniel Berend & Yuri Chernyavsky - 441-454 An Alternative Approach to Valence Advantage in Spatial Competition
by Guillaume Hollard & Stéphane Rossignol - 455-473 Heterogeneity Gap in Stable Jurisdiction Structures
by Anna Bogomolnaia & Michel Le Breton & Alexei Savvateev & Shlomo Weber
April 2008, Volume 10, Issue 2
- 171-194 Endogenous Group Formation
by T. K. Ahn & R. Mark Isaac & Timothy C. Salmon - 195-217 Under‐reporting of Income and Labor Market Performance
by Ann‐Sofie Kolm & Søren Bo Nielsen - 219-243 Committees and Special Interests
by Mike Felgenhauer & Hans Peter Grüner - 245-258 Taxes and Decision Rights in Multinationals
by Søren Bo Nielsen & Pascalis Raimondos‐Møller & Guttorm Schjelderup - 259-279 Decentralizing Public Goods Production
by Michael Lundholm - 281-300 Condorcet Jury Theorem or Rational Ignorance
by Minoru Kitahara & Yohei Sekiguchi - 301-315 Do Your Neighbors Influence Your Health?
by Heather L. Bednarek & Rowena A. Pecchenino & Sally C. Stearns - 317-327 On the Existence and Uniqueness of Pure‐Strategy Nash Equilibrium in Asymmetric Rent‐Seeking Contests
by Takeshi Yamazaki
February 2008, Volume 10, Issue 1
- 1-5 The Journal of Public Economic Theory at Ten Years Old
by John P. Conley & Myrna Wooders - 7-26 Strategy‐Proofness and the Tops‐Only Property
by John A. Weymark - 27-53 Intergenerational Allocation of Government Expenditures: Externalities and Optimal Taxation
by Kazi Iqbal & Stephen J. Turnovsky - 55-76 Ranking Journals Following a Matching Model Approach: An Application to Public Economics Journals
by Francesc Pujol - 77-98 Efficiency of Screening and Labor Income Inequality
by Bernhard Eckwert & Itzhak Zilcha - 99-124 Tragedy of the Commons in a Stochastic Game of a Stock Externality
by Franz Wirl - 125-143 Redistribution and Provision of Public Goods in an Economic Federation
by Thomas Aronsson & Sören Blomquist - 145-147 Should We Tax Capital Income in the Short Run?
by Leslie J. Reinhorn - 149-169 Progressive Taxation, Tax Exemption, and Irreversible Investment under Uncertainty
by Luis H. R. Alvarez & Erkki Koskela
December 2007, Volume 9, Issue 6
- 927-958 Increasing Returns, Learning, and Beneficial Tax Competition
by Seppo Honkapohja & Arja Turunen‐Red - 959-978 Endogenous City Formation with Production Externalities: Existence of Equilibrium
by Courtney Lafountain - 979-992 Delegation versus Veto in Organizational Games of Strategic Communication
by Anthony M. Marino - 993-1011 The Manipulability of Fair Solutions in Assignment of an Indivisible Object with Monetary Transfers
by Yuji Fujinaka & Toyotaka Sakai - 1013-1030 Political Support for Tax Decentralization
by Susana Peralta - 1031-1040 Policy for Poverty Alleviation and Income Redistribution with Quasi‐Public Goods
by Yui Nakamura - 1041-1068 Wealth Heterogeneity and Escape from the Poverty–Environment Trap
by Masako Ikefuji & Ryo Horii - 1069-1078 Extendable Cooperative Games
by Yaron Azrieli & Ehud Lehrer - 1079-1102 Endogenously Weighted Voting
by Nicolas Houy - 1103-1126 Inefficient Public Provision in a Repeated Elections Model
by Georges Casamatta & Caroline De Paoli
October 2007, Volume 9, Issue 5
- 757-769 The Methodology of Normative Economics
by Steven E. Landsburg - 771-792 On Environmental Policy and Permitting
by Philippe Bontems & Jean‐Marc Bourgeon - 793-808 Strategyproof Cost Sharing of Multiple Excludable Public Goods
by Suresh Mutuswami - 809-830 Rivalry, Exclusion, and Coalitions
by Santiago Sánchez‐Pagés - 831-866 Correcting Market Failure Due to Interdependent Preferences: When Is Piecemeal Policy Possible?
by Emanuela Randon & Peter Simmons - 867-884 On the Optimality of Search Matching Equilibrium When Workers Are Risk Averse
by Etienne Lehmann & Bruno Van Der Linden - 885-899 Piecemeal Multilateral Environmental Policy Reforms under Asymmetric Oligopoly
by Sajal Lahiri & George Symeonidis - 901-925 Globalization, Asymmetric Tax Competition, and Fiscal Equalization
by Carl Gaigné & Stéphane Riou
August 2007, Volume 9, Issue 4
- 563-587 Choosing What to Protect: Strategic Defensive Allocation against an Unknown Attacker
by Vicki Bier & Santiago Oliveros & Larry Samuelson - 589-606 When Redistribution Leads to Regressive Taxation
by Cyril Hariton & Gwenaël Piaser - 607-639 United We Vote
by Jon X. Eguia - 641-651 Preemptive Competition in City Development
by Steven Heubeck - 653-682 Income Taxation with Labor Responses
by Udo Ebert & Patrick Moyes - 683-698 Poverty‐Reducing and Welfare‐Improving Marginal Public Price and Price Cap Reforms
by Paul Makdissi & Quentin Wodon - 699-710 Strategic Complementarity in the Dynamic Private Provision of a Discrete Public Good
by Sebastian G. Kessing - 711-725 On the Choice of Public Pensions when Income and Life Expectancy Are Correlated
by Rainald Borck - 727-755 Corruption and the Provision of Public Output in a Hierarchical Asymmetric Information Relationship
by Sanjit Dhami & Ali Al‐Nowaihi
June 2007, Volume 9, Issue 3
- 391-423 Tax Competition Reconsidered
by Amrita Dhillon & Myrna Wooders & Ben Zissimos - 425-449 A Case for Bundling Public Goods Contributions
by Suman Ghosh & Alexander Karaivanov & Mandar Oak - 451-465 Lotteries, Group Size, and Public Good Provision
by Paul Pecorino & Akram Temimi - 467-500 Help the Low Skilled or Let the Hardworking Thrive? A Study of Fairness in Optimal Income Taxation
by Marc Fleurbaey & François Maniquet - 501-519 Economic Progress, Social Regress?
by Amy Farmer & Raja Kali - 521-545 Racial Profiling, Statistical Discrimination, and the Effect of a Colorblind Policy on the Crime Rate
by David Bjerk - 547-561 Do Consumers Purchase Too Much Health Insurance? The Role of Market Power in Health‐Care Markets
by Berthold U. Wigger & Markus Anlauf
April 2007, Volume 9, Issue 2
- 183-200 On the Neutrality of Redistribution in a General Equilibrium Model with Public Goods
by Antonio Villanacci & Ünal Zenginobuz - 201-219 Aggregative Public Good Games
by Richard Cornes & Roger Hartley - 221-229 Government and the Reverse‐Holdup Problem
by Abraham L. Wickelgren - 231-263 Collective Risk Control and Group Security: The Unexpected Consequences of Differential Risk Aversion
by TOSHIHIRO IHORI & MARTIN C. McGUIRE - 265-283 The Problem of Optimum Income Taxation: A Remark on Its Monotonicity Constraint
by X. RUIZ del PORTAL - 285-318 A General‐Equilibrium Analysis of Public Policy for Pharmaceutical Prices
by Christina M. L. Kelton & Robert P. Rebelein - 319-334 Majority Voting over Publicly Provided Goods, Redistribution, and Income Taxation
by Stephen M. Calabrese - 335-368 Discontinuous Payoffs, Shared Resources, and Games of Fiscal Competition: Existence of Pure Strategy Nash Equilibrium
by Paul Rothstein - 369-389 Centralization vs. Decentralization: A Principal‐Agent Analysis
by Mariano Tommasi & Federico Weinschelbaum
February 2007, Volume 9, Issue 1
- 1-27 On Optimal Commodity Taxes When Consumption Is Time Consuming
by Firouz Gahvari - 29-40 Asymmetric Equilibria in a Model with Costly Voting
by Francesco De Sinopoli & Giovanna Iannantuoni - 41-68 Probabilistic Voting and Accountability in Elections with Uncertain Policy Constraints
by Adam Meirowitz - 69-87 Crime and Punishment and Corruption: Who Needs “Untouchables?”
by Emilson C. D. Silva & Charles M. Kahn & Xie Zhu - 89-105 The Simple Economics of Bunching: Optimal Taxation with Quasi‐Linear Preferences
by Jan Boone & Lans Bovenberg - 107-125 Collective Choice and Control Rights in Firms
by Gregory K. Dow & Gilbert L. Skillman - 127-150 Optimum Taxation of Each Year's Income
by Thomas Gaube - 151-181 Unemployment Insurance under Moral Hazard and Limited Commitment: Public versus Private Provision
by Jonathan P. Thomas & Tim Worrall
December 2006, Volume 8, Issue 5
- 713-740 Edgeworth and Lindahl–Foley equilibria of a General Equilibrium Model with Private Provision of Pure Public Goods
by MONIQUE FLORENZANO & ELENA L. Del MERCATO - 741-760 Taxes and the Efficiency‐Rent Extraction Trade‐off
by Anil Arya & Jonathan Glover & Brian Mittendorf - 761-777 Fixed Wages and Bonuses in Agency Contracts: The Case of a Continuous State Space
by Maria Racionero & John Quiggin - 779-805 Political Uncertainty and Policy Innovation
by Christos Kotsogiannis & Robert Schwager - 807-819 Redistributive Taxation and Public Education
by Alan Krause - 821-838 Business Cycles, Heuristic Expectation Formation, and Contracyclical Policies
by Frank H. Westerhoff - 839-862 Bureaucracy, Tax System, and Economic Performance
by Ingrid Ott - 863-873 The Private Provision of Public Goods under Uncertainty: A Symmetric‐Equilibrium Approach
by Donald C. Keenan & Iltae Kim & Ronald S. Warren
October 2006, Volume 8, Issue 4
- 503-528 Getting the Ball Rolling: Voluntary Contributions to a Large‐Scale Public Project
by Huseyin Yildirim - 529-545 Intergenerational Transfer of Human Capital and Optimal Education Policy
by Helmuth Cremer & Pierre Pestieau - 547-554 Product Quality and the Optimal Structure of Commodity Taxes
by Sofia Delipalla & Michael Keen - 555-569 The Economics of Bipartisan Campaign Reform
by John Cadigan - 571-602 Passive Industry Interests in a Large Polity
by Clare Leaver & Miltiadis Makris - 603-610 Do Conditional Benefits Reduce Equilibrium Unemployment?
by FREDERICK Van DerPLOEG - 611-630 The Signaling Effect of Tax Policy
by Francesca Barigozzi & Bertrand Villeneuve - 631-676 Tax Reform with Useful Public Expenditures
by Steven P. Cassou & Kevin J. Lansing - 677-695 The Optimal Use of Fines and Imprisonment If Governments Do Not Maximize Welfare
by Ingolf Dittmann - 697-711 Optimal Age‐Specific Income Taxation
by Jean‐Marie Lozachmeur
August 2006, Volume 8, Issue 3
- 345-355 An Algorithm for Stable and Equitable Coalition Structures with Public Goods
by Fan‐Chin Kung - 357-377 The Marginal Costs and Benefits of Redistributing Income and the Willingness to Pay for Status
by Sam Allgood - 379-399 Indecision Theory: Weight of Evidence and Voting Behavior
by Paolo Ghirardato & Jonathan N. Katz - 401-408 On the Frequency of Interior Cournot–Nash Equilibria in a Public Good Economy
by Wolfgang Buchholz & Richard Cornes & Wolfgang Peters - 409-451 Budget Balancedness and Optimal Income Taxation
by Marcus Berliant & Frank H. Page - 453-463 Tax Evasion and Limited Liability
by K. L. Glen Ueng & C. C. Yang - 465-486 Capital Accumulation and Fiscal Policy in an OLG Model with Family Altruism
by Stéphane Lambrecht & Philippe Michel & Emmanuel Thibault - 487-501 Human Fallibility, Complementarity, and Fiscal Decentralization
by Yukihiro Nishimura
May 2006, Volume 8, Issue 2
- 181-191 Compensations in Information Collecting Situations: A Cooperative Approach
by Stef Tijs & Judith Timmer & Rodica Brânzei - 193-218 Welfare Economics with Intransitive Revealed Preferences: A Theory of the Endowment Effect
by H. Lorne Carmichael & W. Bentley Macleod - 219-245 Nonergodic Corruption Dynamics (or, Why Do Some Regions within a Country Become More Corrupt than Others?)
by Randal J. Verbrugge - 247-263 Stable International Environmental Agreements: An Analytical Approach
by Effrosyni Diamantoudi & Eftichios S. Sartzetakis - 265-282 Effort and Performance in Public Policy Contests
by Gil S. Epstein & Shmuel Nitzan - 283-291 On the Relative Equitability of a Family of Taxation Rules
by Juan D. Moreno‐Ternero & Antonio Villar - 293-320 The Effect of Tax Convexity on Corporate Investment Decisions and Tax Burdens
by Sudipto Sarkar & Levon Goukasian - 321-343 The Optimality of Arbitrary Partial Equilibrium Welfare Analysis
by Marc Duhamel
January 2006, Volume 8, Issue 1
- 1-22 Leadership Giving in Charitable Fund‐Raising
by James Andreoni - 23-47 A Mechanism for Inducing Cooperation in Noncooperative Environments: Theory and Applications
by Christopher J. Ellis & Anne Van Den Nouweland - 49-60 Public Goods Provision: On Generalizing the Jackson–Moulin Mechanism
by Yan Yu - 61-93 Intergenerational Transfers: An Integrative Approach
by Mordechai E. Schwarz - 95-118 Does the Progressivity of Income Taxes Matter for Human Capital and Growth?
by Elizabeth M. Caucutt & Selahattin İmrohoroğlu & Krishna B. Kumar - 119-144 The Efficiency Consequences of Local Revenue Equalization: Tax Competition and Tax Distortions
by Sam Bucovetsky & Michael Smart - 145-170 Gains from Trade versus Gains from Migration: What Makes Them So Different?
by Peter J. Hammond & Jaume Sempere - 171-179 Dynamic Voluntary Provision of Public Goods and Optimal Steady‐State Subsidies
by Akihiko Yanase
December 2005, Volume 7, Issue 5
- 709-739 Growth, Inequality, and Integration: A Political Economy Analysis
by Hubert Kempf & Stéphane Rossignol - 741-759 Ambiguity and Public Good Provision in Large Societies
by Ralph W. Bailey & Jürgen Eichberger & David Kelsey - 761-779 Asymmetric Taxation under Incremental and Sequential Investment
by Paolo M. Panteghini - 781-791 Public Funding of Political Parties
by Ignacio Ortuno‐Ortín & Christian Schultz - 793-798 The Asymptotic Voluntary Provision of the Pure Public Goods
by Benyamin Shitovitz & Menahem Spiegel - 799-826 Optimal Privatization Design and Financial Markets
by Stefano Bosi & Guillaume Girmens & Michel Guillard - 827-840 The Budget Deficit, Public Debt, and Endogenous Growth
by Michael Bräuninger - 841-857 Public Policy with Endogenous Preferences
by Oren Bar‐Gill & Chaim Fershtman - 859-865 A Note on Progressive Taxation and Cooperation
by Guido Cozzi
October 2005, Volume 7, Issue 4
- 543-559 Taxation and Tournaments
by Mats Persson & Agnar Sandmo - 561-577 Endogenous Public Expenditures on Education
by Peter Bearse & Gerhard Glomm & Debra Moore Patterson - 579-592 Market Access and WTO Border Tax Adjustments for Environmental Excise Taxes under Imperfect Competition
by STEVE McCORRISTON & IAN M. SHELDON - 593-622 Micro‐simulation and Normative Policy Evaluation: An Application to Some EU Tax Benefits Systems
by Amedeo Spadaro - 623-640 Cooperation by Asymmetric Agents in a Joint Project
by R. Brânzei & E. Iñarra & S. Tijs & J. M. Zarzuelo - 641-667 Mechanism Design under Collusion and Uniform Transfers
by Doh‐Shin Jeon - 669-679 On the Optimal Taxation in a Growth Model of the Mixed Economy
by Yi‐Hang Shao - 681-708 Optimal Utilitarian Taxation and Horizontal Equity
by Henrik Jordahl & Luca Micheletto
August 2005, Volume 7, Issue 3
- 361-381 Trading Off Tax Distortion and Tax Evasion
by Wolfram F. Richter & Robin W. Boadway - 383-403 Inefficient Local Regulation of Local Externalities
by Gregory Besharov & Ari Zweiman - 405-426 Taxes or Fees? The Political Economy of Providing Excludable Public Goods
by Kurtis J. Swope & Eckhard Janeba - 427-448 Work Requirements and Long‐Term Poverty
by Fred Schroyen & Gaute Torsvik - 449-470 Aging, Myopia, and the Pay‐As‐You‐Go Public Pension Systems of the G7: A Bright Future?
by Rowena A. Pecchenino & Patricia S. Pollard - 471-495 Fair and Efficient Compensation for Taking Property under Uncertainty
by T. Nicolaus Tideman & Florenz Plassmann - 497-520 Decentralization and Economic Development: An Evolutionary Approach
by Motohiro Sato & Shinji Yamashige - 521-541 Audit Misperception, Tax Compliance, and Optimal Uncertainty
by Youngse Kim
May 2005, Volume 7, Issue 2
- 169-199 Protecting Minorities through the Average Voting Rule
by Régis Renault & Alain Trannoy - 201-228 Incentives and Standards in Agency Contracts
by Robert G. Chambers & John Quiggin - 229-252 Signaling in Political Budget Cycles: How Far Are You Willing to Go?
by Jorge Miguel Streb - 253-284 Health, Wealth, and Fairness
by Marc Fleurbaey - 285-294 An Example of Nonexistence of Three‐Community Equilibrium
by Andrei M. Gomberg - 295-315 Optimal Income Taxation with Endogenous Human Capital
by Bas Jacobs - 317-346 Multistage Contracting with Applications to R&D and Insurance Policies
by Isabelle Brocas - 347-359 Tax Liability and Tax Evasion in a Competitive Labor Market
by Laszlo Goerke
February 2005, Volume 7, Issue 1
- 1-25 Social Welfare Functionals on Restricted Domains and in Economic Environments
by Georges Bordes & Peter J. Hammond & Michel Le Breton - 27-50 Neutral Property Taxation
by Richard Arnott - 51-63 Leading by Example and International Collective Action
by André Rossi De Oliveira & João Ricardo Faria & Daniel G. Arce M. - 65-91 Stable Assignment of Public Facilities under Congestion
by Anna Bogomolnaia & Antonio Nicolò - 93-105 Bunching, Time Constraints, and Workfare
by Craig Brett