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Free Download Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition By Jacques Drèze (auth.), Parkash Chander, Jacques Drèze, C. Knox Lovell, Jack Mintz (eds.)
2006 | 588 Pages | ISBN: 0387255338 | PDF | 4 MB
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 goodsII. Environment, public goods and externalitiesIII. Efficiency analysisIV. Fiscal competition and optimalityThe 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 Equilbria to characterize the outcomes of fiscal competition