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Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition: selected papers on competition, efficiency, and cooperation in public economics

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York Springer 2006 Description: xviii, 588 pISBN:
  • 0387255338
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363
Summary: The twenty-two papers collected in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens, an applied theorist, on the occasion of his retirement from teaching.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.The four pictures above evoke a key concept, method or model used in each of these four parts: MDP-type processes to determine feasible paths to efficiency and coalitional stability - CLIMNEG World Simulation model to explore alternative environmental scenarios for the planet - Free Disposal Hull efficiency analysis to drop convexity and help deal with outliers - Non Cooperative Fiscal Equilibria to characterize the outcomes of fiscal competition.
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The twenty-two papers collected in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens, an applied theorist, on the occasion of his retirement from teaching.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.The four pictures above evoke a key concept, method or model used in each of these four parts: MDP-type processes to determine feasible paths to efficiency and coalitional stability - CLIMNEG World Simulation model to explore alternative environmental scenarios for the planet - Free Disposal Hull efficiency analysis to drop convexity and help deal with outliers - Non Cooperative Fiscal Equilibria to characterize the outcomes of fiscal competition.

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