Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 71, issue 3, 1999

Restraining the Leviathan: property tax limitation in Massachusetts pp. 313-334

David Cutler, Douglas Elmendorf and Richard Zeckhauser

A two-region model of redistribution, migration and international trade pp. 335-354

Harry Huizinga

The capital gain lock-in effect and equilibrium returns pp. 355-378

Peter Klein

"Basket cases": Tax incentives and international joint venture participation by American multinational firms pp. 379-402

Mihir A. Desai and James Hines

Strategic risk taking when there is a public good to be provided privately pp. 403-414

Julio Robledo

Truth or consequences: Enforcing pollution standards with self-reporting pp. 415-440

John Livernois and C. J. McKenna

Tax competition and tax coordination in an optimum income tax model pp. 441-458

Bernd Huber

A simple proof of the efficiency of the poll tax pp. 459-465

Michael Smart

Volume 71, issue 2, 1999

Re-examination of uniform commodity taxes under a non-linear income tax system and its implication for production efficiency pp. 165-188

Hisahiro Naito

Public radio in the United States: does it correct market failure or cannibalize commercial stations? pp. 189-211

Steven Berry and Joel Waldfogel

The effect of old age assistance on retirement pp. 213-232

Leora Friedberg

Tax incidence under oligopoly: a comparison of policy approaches pp. 233-245

Stephen Hamilton

Changing the price of pork: the impact of local cost sharing on legislators' demands for distributive public goods pp. 247-273

Alison F. DelRossi and Robert P. Inman

Types and patterns: an experimental East-West-German comparison of cooperation and solidarity pp. 275-287

Axel Ockenfels and Joachim Weimann

Education, social security, and growth pp. 289-309

Michael Kaganovich and Itzhak Zilcha

Volume 71, issue 1, 1999

Optimal taxation and spending in general competitive growth models pp. 1-26

Kenneth Judd

How do retirement tests affect the labour supply of older men? pp. 27-51

Michael Baker and Dwayne Benjamin

Voluntary provision of threshold public goods with continuous contributions: experimental evidence pp. 53-73

Charles Cadsby and Elizabeth Maynes

Evaluating the minimum asset tax on corporations: an option pricing approach pp. 75-96

Sweder van Wijnbergen and Antonio Estache

Testable restrictions of Pareto optimal public good provision pp. 97-119

Susan Snyder

Country size and tax competition for foreign direct investment pp. 121-139

Andreas Haufler and Ian Wooton

Rationing by waiting lists: an empirical investigation pp. 141-164

Stephen Martin and Peter C. Smith

Volume 70, issue 3, 1998

Externalities and optimal taxation pp. 343-364

Helmuth Cremer, Firouz Gahvari and Norbert Ladoux

Redistribution and the marginal cost of public funds pp. 365-382

Agnar Sandmo

Vertical externalities in tax setting: evidence from gasoline and cigarettes pp. 383-398

Timothy Besley and Harvey Rosen

Why the poor do not expropriate the rich: an old argument in new garb pp. 399-424

John Roemer

Tax reform and collective family decision-making pp. 425-440

Craig Brett

A state-contingent production approach to principal-agent problems with an application to point-source pollution control pp. 441-472

John Quiggin and Robert Chambers

Partial privatization in mixed duopoly pp. 473-483

Toshihiro Matsumura

Volume 70, issue 2, 1998

Social interactions and habit formation in a model of female labour supply pp. 185-205

Isolde Woittiez and Arie Kapteyn

New evidence on pensions, social security, and the timing of retirement pp. 207-236

Andrew Samwick

On the taxation of human and physical capital in models of endogenous growth pp. 237-254

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Nouriel Roubini

Differentiated payroll taxes, unemployment, and welfare pp. 255-271

Ann-Sofie Kolm

Welfare measurement, green accounting and distortionary taxes pp. 273-295

Thomas Aronsson

A theoretical analysis of altruism and decision error in public goods games pp. 297-323

Simon Anderson, Jacob Goeree and Charles Holt

Efficiency inducing taxation for polluting oligopolists pp. 325-342

Hassan Benchekroun and Ngo Long

Volume 70, issue 1, 1998

Class systems and the enforcement of social norms pp. 5-35

Harold Cole, George Mailath and Andrew Postlewaite

Social organization, status, and savings behavior pp. 37-51

Giacomo Corneo and Olivier Jeanne

Social rewards, externalities and stable preferences pp. 53-73

Chaim Fershtman and Yoram Weiss

On the cultural transmission of preferences for social status pp. 75-97

Alberto Bisin and Thierry Verdier

Status-seeking, income taxation and efficiency pp. 99-113

Norman J. Ireland

Self-fulfilling beliefs about social status pp. 115-132

Thomas Piketty

Comparison-concave utility and following behaviour in social and economic settings pp. 133-155

Andrew Clark and Andrew Oswald

Relative income concerns and the rise in married women's employment pp. 157-183

David Neumark and Andrew Postlewaite

Volume 69, issue 3, 1998

Openness, country size and government pp. 305-321

Alberto Alesina and Romain Wacziarg

Does the government crowd-out private donations? New evidence from a sample of non-profit firms pp. 323-345

A. Payne

Consequences of discretion in the formation of commodities policy pp. 347-370

John McLaren

Social insurance and the optimum piecewise linear income tax pp. 371-388

Michel Strawczynski

A predictive index for the flypaper effect pp. 389-412

Koleman S. Strumpf

Uncertain income and redistribution in a federal system pp. 413-433

Kangoh Lee

Distributional conflict and jurisdictional organization pp. 435-450

Karl Wärneryd

Foreign profits and domestic investment pp. 451-463

Alfons Weichenrieder

Volume 69, issue 2, 1998

Editorial introduction pp. 153-153

A. Author

Wealth and portfolio composition: Theory and evidence pp. 155-193

Mervyn A. King and Jonathan I. Leape

Effort levels in a Cournot Nash contest with asymmetric information pp. 195-210

Terrance Hurley and Jason Shogren

Educational vouchers, welfare effects, and voting pp. 211-228

William Hoyt and Kangoh Lee

Risky local tax bases: risk-pooling vs. rent-capture pp. 229-247

David Wildasin and John Wilson

Economy of specialization and diseconomy of externalities pp. 249-261

C. Y. Cyrus Chu and C. Wang

Corruption and the composition of government expenditure pp. 263-279

Paolo Mauro

Private government pp. 281-304

Robert Helsley and William Strange

Volume 69, issue 1, 1998

Political internalization of economic externalities and environmental policy pp. 1-16

Toke Aidt

Tax policy uncertainty and corporate investment: A theory of tax-induced investment spurts pp. 17-48

Luis Alvarez, Vesa Kanniainen and Jan Södersten

The impossibility of a progressive tax structure pp. 49-65

Patrick Moyes and Anthony Shorrocks

The effect of minimum-wage laws on the distribution of employment: theory and evidence pp. 67-82

Kevin Lang and Shulamit Kahn

The value of automobile travel time: implications for congestion policy pp. 83-102

John Calfee and Clifford Winston

Social evaluation functions, economic isolation and the Suits index of progressivity pp. 103-121

Jean-Yves Duclos

Burglary and income inequality pp. 123-141

W. Henry Chiu and Paul Madden

Taxes, organizational form, and the deadweight loss of the corporate income tax pp. 143-152

Austan Goolsbee