Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

Current editor(s): R. Boadway and J. Poterba

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Do consumers respond to future income shocks? Evidence from social security reform in Taiwan pp. 275-295: Alec R. Levenson
Ends against the middle: Determining public service provision when there are private alternatives pp. 297-325: Dennis Epple and Richard Romano
Taxes, redistribution, and growth pp. 327-338: Randall Wright
Equilibrium formation of class action suits pp. 339-361: Yeon-Koo Che
A computable general equilibrium model of intergovernmental aid pp. 363-397: Thomas Nechyba
Dalton-improving tax reform: When households differ in ability and needs pp. 399-412: Joram Mayshar and Shlomo Yitzhaki
Efficient private provision of public goods by rewarding deviations from average pp. 413-422: Josef Falkinger

Editorial introduction pp. 1-4: Roger Gordon and Domenico Siniscalco
Environmental regulations and manufacturers' location choices: Evidence from the Census of Manufactures pp. 5-29: Arik Levinson
Optimal pricing of environmental and natural resource use with stock externalities pp. 31-57: Y. Hossein Farzin
Optimal taxation, public goods and environmental policy with involuntary unemployment pp. 59-83: Lans Bovenberg and Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg
Pollution permits and compliance strategies pp. 85-125: Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole
Pollution permits and environmental innovation pp. 127-140: Jean-Jacques Laffont and Jean Tirole
Environmental taxation and unemployment: Some evidence on the 'double dividend hypothesis' in Europe pp. 141-181: Carlo Carraro, Marzio Galeotti and Massimo Gallo
Imperfect 'tagging' in social insurance programs pp. 183-207: Donald Parsons
Health insurance and the supply of entrepreneurs pp. 209-235: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, John R. Penrod and Harvey Rosen
Tax reforms and investment: A cross-country comparison pp. 237-273: Jason Cummins, Kevin Hassett and Robert Hubbard

Market structure and prices: The responses of hospitals in the UK National Health Service to competition pp. 307-335: Carol Propper
An experimental examination of general equilibrium tax incidence pp. 337-358: Herman C. Quirmbach, Charles W. Swenson and Cynthia C. Vines
Satisfaction and comparison income pp. 359-381: Andrew Clark and Andrew Oswald
On the optimality of allowing collusion pp. 383-407: Fred Kofman and Jacques Lawarree
Altuism, reputation and noise in linear public goods experiments pp. 409-427: Thomas Palfrey and Jeffrey E. Prisbrey
Training, migration, and regional income disparities pp. 429-443: John Leach
Market failures in the R&D growth model with endogenous labor supply pp. 445-454: Clas Eriksson
'What a difference a day makes...': Concern about a new approach to valuing a life pp. 455-457: John G. Cullis and Philip R. Jones

Public policy and anthropometric outcomes in the Cote d'Ivoire pp. 155-192: Duncan Thomas, Victor Lavy and John Strauss
Social protection and political competition pp. 193-208: Jean Gabszewicz and Tanguy van Ypersele
Endogenous fertility and the Henry George Theorem pp. 209-228: Urs Schweizer
A minimalist model of federal grants and flypaper effects pp. 229-246: Geoffrey Brennan and Jonathan Pincus
Suppes-Sen dominance, generalised Lorenz dominance and the welfare economics of competitive equilibrium: Some examples pp. 247-262: Paul Madden
Reward structures in public good experiments pp. 263-287: Martin Sefton and Richard Steinberg
The marginal welfare cost of public funds: Theory and estimates pp. 289-305: Arthur Snow and Ronald Warren

Unemployment and increasing private returns to human capital pp. 1-20: Gilles Saint-Paul
The net national product and exhaustible resources: The effects of foreign trade pp. 21-47: James Sefton and Martin Weale
Interest-group politics under majority rule pp. 49-71: William Dougan and James Snyder
Technological linkages, market structure, and production policies pp. 73-86: Douglas Holtz-Eakin and Mary Lovely
Production efficiency and the design of temporary investment incentives pp. 87-106: William Jack and Alan Viard
How to tax a spatial monopolist pp. 107-118: John Heywood and Debashis Pal
Optimal fiscal and public expenditure policy in a two-class economy pp. 119-137: Mario Nava, Fred Schroyen and Maurice Marchand
International public goods and contribution productivity differentials pp. 139-154: Toshihiro Ihori

Editorial introduction to "Tax reforms and tax harmonization: Public choice versus public finance" pp. 303-305: Friedrich Schneider
Designing tax policy in federalist economies: An overview pp. 307-334: Robert P. Inman and Daniel L. Rubinfeld
To harmonize or to compete? That's not the question pp. 335-349: Bruno Frey and Reiner Eichenberger
Tax harmonization and tax competition in the European Union: Lessons from Switzerland pp. 351-371: Gebhard Kirchgässner and Werner W. Pommerehne
Optimality properties of alternative systems of taxation of foreign capital income pp. 373-399: Jack Mintz and Henry Tulkens
Transfer pricing rules and corporate tax competition pp. 401-422: Ramy Elitzur and Jack Mintz
Foreign direct investment under oligopoly: Profit shifting or profit capturing? pp. 423-445: Eckhard Janeba

The role of social security in an economy with asymmetric information and financial intermediaries pp. 153-175: Pietro Reichlin and Paolo Siconolfi
Imperfect mobility and local government behaviour in an overlapping-generations model pp. 177-198: David Wildasin and John Wilson
Labour supply, household production and intra-family welfare distribution pp. 199-219: Patricia Apps and Ray Rees
Fundamental irreversibilities in stock externalities pp. 221-233: Charles Kolstad
Tax evasion and the optimum general income tax pp. 235-249: Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari
Cutting environmental penalties to protect the environment pp. 251-265: Anthony Heyes
Budgetary deficits and Ricardian equivalence: The case of India, 1950-1986 pp. 267-282: Anita Ghatak and Subrata Ghatak
Social security in a non-altruistic model with uncertainty and endogenous fertility pp. 283-294: Furio Rosati
Exclusion and moral hazard: A further analysis pp. 295-301: Clive Fraser

Trade-offs in the spatial model of resource allocation pp. 1-19: Donald E. Campbell and Jerry S. Kelly
Optimal tax, debt, and expenditure policies in a growing economy pp. 21-44: Stephen J Turnovsky
Import tariffs and growth in a small open economy pp. 45-71: Thomas Osang and Alfredo Pereira
The provision of local public goods and factors in the presence of firm and household mobility pp. 73-93: Wolfram Richter and Dietmar Wellisch
Environmental consciousness and moral hazard in international agreements to protect the environment pp. 95-110: Emmanuel Petrakis and Anastasios Xepapadeas
On the provision of excludable public goods pp. 111-130: Clive Fraser
Transition from a pay-as-you-go to a fully funded pension system: The case of differing individuals and intragenerational fairness pp. 131-146: Johann Brunner
Should capital income be taxed in the steady state? pp. 147-151: Isabel Correia