Public Goods, Environmental Externalities and Fiscal Competition: Selected Papers on Competition, Efficiency, and Cooperation in Public Economics by Henry Tulkens

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Introduction....Pages 3-7
Dynamic Processes for Public Goods: An Institution-Oriented Survey....Pages 9-48
Surplus-Sharing Local Games in Dynamic Exchange Processes....Pages 49-62
Exchange Processes, the Core and Competitive Allocations....Pages 64-79
Commodity Exchanges as Gradient Processes....Pages 81-95
Front Matter....Pages 97-99
Introduction....Pages 101-105
An Economic Model of International Negotiations Relating to Transfrontier Pollution....Pages 107-121
Theoretical Foundations of Negotiations and Cost Sharing in Transfrontier Pollution Problems....Pages 123-134
The Acid Rain Game as a Resource Allocation Process, with Application to Negotiations Between Finland, Russia and Estonia....Pages 135-152
The Core of an Economy with Multilateral Environmental Externalities....Pages 153-175
A Core-Theoretic Solution for the Design of Cooperative Agreements on Transfrontier Pollution....Pages 176-193
The Kyoto Protocol: An Economic and Game Theoretic Interpretation....Pages 195-215
Simulating Coalitionally Stable Burden Sharing Agreements for the Climate Change Problem....Pages 218-249
Transfers to Sustain Dynamic Core-Theoretic Cooperation in International Stock Pollutant Control....Pages 251-274
Front Matter....Pages 275-277
Introduction....Pages 279-284
Measuring Labor-Efficiency in Post Offices....Pages 285-309
On FDH Efficiency Analysis: Some Methodological Issues and Applications to Retail Banking, Courts and Urban Transit....Pages 311-342
Assessing and Explaining the Performance of Public Enterprises: Some Recent Evidence from the Productive Efficiency Viewpoint....Pages 343-372
Non-Frontier Measures of Efficiency, Progress and Regress for Time Series Data....Pages 373-394
Nonparametric Efficiency, Progress and Regress Measures For Panel Data: Methodological Aspects....Pages 395-429
Front Matter....Pages 275-277
Efficiency Dominance Analysis (EDA): Basic Methodology....Pages 431-442
Front Matter....Pages 443-444
Introduction....Pages 445-448
Commodity Tax Competition Between Member States of a Federation: Equilibrium and Efficiency....Pages 449-489
On Pareto Improving Commodity Tax Changes Under Fiscal Competition....Pages 491-506
Optimality Properties of Alternative Systems of Taxation of Foreign Capital Income....Pages 507-532
Tax Interaction Dynamics Among Belgian Municipalities 1984-1997....Pages 534-556
Back Matter....Pages 557-588