Research Catalog

Title

Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition : selected papers on competition, efficiency and cooperation in public economics / by Henry Tulkens ; edited and introduced by Parkash Chander [and others].

Author

Tulkens, Henry.

Publication

New York : Springer, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

Chander, Parkash.

Description

xviii, 588 pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Subjects

• Biens collectifs > Modèles mathématiques
• Politique fiscale > Modèles mathématiques
• Externalities (Economics) > Environmental aspects > Mathematical models
• Économies externes > Aspect de l'environnement > Modèles mathématiques
• Fiscal policy > Mathematical models
• Public goods > Mathematical models

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Dynamic processes for public goods : an institution-oriented survey -- Ch. 2. Surplus-sharing local games in dynamic exchange processes -- Ch. 3. Exchange processes, the core and competitive allocations -- Ch. 4. Commodity exchanges as gradient processes -- Ch. 5. An economic model of international negotiations relating to transfrontier pollution -- Ch. 6. Theoretical foundations of negotiations and cost sharing in transfrontier pollution problems -- Ch. 7. The acid rain game as a resource allocation process, with application to negotiations between Finland, Russia and Estonia -- Ch. 8. The core of an economy with multilateral environmental externalities -- Ch. 9. A core-theoretic solution for the design of cooperative agreements on transfrontier pollution -- Ch. 10. The Kyoto protocol : an economic and game theoretic interpretation -- Ch. 11. Simulating coalitionally stable burden sharing agreements for the climate change problem -- Ch. 12. Transfers to sustain dynamic core-theoretic cooperation in international stock pollutant control -- Ch. 13. Measuring labor-efficiency in post offices -- Ch. 14. On FDH efficiency analysis : some methodological issues and applications to retail banking, courts and urban transit -- Ch. 15. Assessing and explaining the performance of public enterprises : some recent evidence from the productive efficiency viewpoint -- Ch. 16. Non-frontier measures of efficiency, progress and regress for time series data -- Ch. 17. Nonparametric efficiency, progress and regress measures for panel data : methodological aspects -- Ch. 18. Efficiency dominance analysis (EDA) : basic methodology -- Ch. 19. Commodity tax competition between member states of a federation : equilibrium and efficiency -- Ch. 20. On Pareto improving commodity tax changes under fiscal competition -- Ch. 21. Optimality properties of alternative systems of taxation of foreign capital income -- Ch. 22. Tax interaction dynamics among Belgian municipalities 1984-1997 -- Bibliography of Henry Tulkens (through 2004).

ISBN

• 0387255338 (hbk.)
• 9780387255330

LCCN

2005932167

OCLC

• 71891642
• ocm71891642
• SCSB-5925954

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries