Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 56, issue 3, 1995

The political economy of inaction pp. 329-353

Peter Howitt and Ronald Wintrobe

Double inefficiency in optimally organized firms pp. 355-375

Dieter Bos and Wolfgang Peters

Testing the impact of taxation on capacity choice: A 'putty clay' approach pp. 377-411

Tarek M. Harchaoui and Pierre Lasserre

A Pareto-improving commodity tax reform under a smooth nonlinear income tax pp. 413-446

Hideo Konishi

Productivity in multiple output public service: A quadratic frontier function and Malmquist index approach pp. 447-460

Hans Bjurek and Lennart Hjalmarsson

Evaluating effective income tax progression pp. 461-474

Kathy J. Hayes, Peter J. Lambert and Daniel J. Slottje

Regulatory errors, optimal fines and the level of compliance pp. 475-484

Pinaki Bose

Observability and choice of instrument mix in the control of externalities pp. 485-498

Anastasios Xepapadeas

Volume 56, issue 2, 1995

Capital budgets, borrowing rules, and state capital spending pp. 165-187

James Poterba

Randomization in optimal income tax schedules pp. 189-223

Dagobert Brito, Jonathan Hamilton, Steven M. Slutsky and Joseph Stiglitz

Simulation of indirect tax reforms using pooled micro and macro French data pp. 225-244

Veronique Nichele and Jean-Marc Robin

The consequences of minimum wage laws Some new theoretical ideas pp. 245-255

James Rebitzer and Lowell Taylor

Charity donations in the UK: New evidence based on panel data pp. 257-272

Jyoti Khanna, John Posnett and Todd Sandler

Equivalence scales and the costs of disability pp. 273-289

Andrew Jones and Owen O'Donnell

Uncertainty and optimal taxation: In defense of commodity taxes pp. 291-310

Helmuth Cremer and Firouz Gahvari

Corporate income tax competition, double taxation treaties, and foreign direct investment pp. 311-325

Eckhard Janeba

Qalys: A comment pp. 327-328

Magnus Johannesson

Volume 56, issue 1, 1995

A utility-consistent, combined discrete choice and count data model Assessing recreational use losses due to natural resource damage pp. 1-30

Jerry A. Hausman, Gregory K. Leonard and Daniel McFadden

Multi-firm regulation without lump-sum taxes pp. 31-53

Ben Lockwood

Competition in regional environmental policies when plant locations are endogenous pp. 55-77

James Markusen, Edward Morey and Nancy Olewiler

Which tax rate do people use: Average or marginal? pp. 79-96

Charles de Bartolome

Misperceived job hazards and welfare pp. 97-123

Clive Fraser

Incomplete information and optimal market structure public purchases from private providers pp. 125-141

Thomas G. McGuire and Michael Riordan

Dynamic public goods provision with coalitional manipulation pp. 143-161

Bhaskar Chakravorti

Volume 55, issue 3, 1994

Environmental policy, public finance and the labour market in a second-best world pp. 349-390

Lans Bovenberg and Frederick (Rick) van der Ploeg

Existence of fair allocations in economies with production pp. 391-405

Thomas Piketty

Labour supply, tax evasion and the marginal cost of public funds an empirical investigation pp. 407-431

Bernard Fortin and Guy Lacroix

State-mandated benefits and employer-provided health insurance pp. 433-464

Jonathan Gruber

Privatization and changes in welfare costs of inflation the case of ENTel Argentina pp. 465-493

Manuel Abdala

In-kind transfers, cash grants and labor supply pp. 495-504

Firouz Gahvari

Volume 55, issue 2, 1994

Interregional spillovers in the presence of perfect and imperfect household mobility pp. 167-184

Dietmar Wellisch

Mass migration, unions, and government intervention pp. 185-201

Christoph Schmidt, Anette Stilz and Klaus Zimmermann

Privatization, risk-taking, and the communist firm pp. 203-231

Dominique Demougin and Hans-Werner Sinn

The effectiveness of corporate tax incentives for foreign investment in the presence of tax crediting pp. 233-255

Jack Mintz and Thomas Tsiopoulos

Tax evasion and the allocation of capital pp. 257-278

Don Fullerton and Marios Karayannis

Tax distortions to the choice of organizational form pp. 279-306

Roger Gordon and Jeffrey Mackie-Mason

Costs of monitoring and corporate taxation pp. 307-321

Vesa Kanniainen and Jan Sodersten

Credit and deferral as international investment incentives pp. 323-347

James Hines

Volume 55, issue 1, 1994

Report of the IEA Committee on a new School of Economics and Economic Development (SEED) in the Third World pp. 1-18

Jacques Dreze, Kenneth Arrow, Anthony B. Atkinston, Kaushik Basu, Seppo Honkapohja, Anne Krueger, Juan-Antonio Morales and Nicholas Stern

Pecuniary redistribution through in-kind programs pp. 19-40

Stephen Coate, Stephen Johnson and Richard Zeckhauser

Fixing the leak in Okun's bucket optimal tax progressivity when avoidance can be controlled pp. 41-51

Joel Slemrod

Representative democracy and capital taxation pp. 53-70

Torsten Persson and Guido Tabellini

Towards a theory of the direct-indirect tax mix pp. 71-88

Robin Boadway, Maurice Marchand and Pierre Pestieau

Parental and social valuations of child health information pp. 89-105

Mark D. Agee and Thomas D. Crocker

Altruistic voting and campaign contributions pp. 107-119

Robert W. Helsley and Arthur O'Sullivan

How cynical can an incumbent be? Strategic policy in a model of government spending pp. 121-140

Gian Maria Milesi-Ferretti and Enrico Spolaore

Incomplete enforcement with endogenous regulatory choice pp. 141-162

Devon Garvie and Andrew Keeler

Volume 54, issue 3, 1994

Strategic environmental policy and intrenational trade pp. 325-338

Scott Barrett

The effects of compulsory schooling on growth, income distribution and welfare pp. 339-359

Zvi Eckstein and Itzhak Zilcha

Learning the preferences of governments and voters from proposed spending and aggregated votes pp. 361-389

Paul Rothstein

Tax evasion and the size of the underground economy pp. 391-402

Young H. Jung, Arthur Snow and Gregory A. Trandel

The comparative static properties of the impure public good model pp. 403-421

Richard Cornes and Todd Sandler

Taxation in a two-sided search model pp. 423-435

Eric Smith

On the effects of investment tax credits on economic efficiency and growth pp. 437-461

Alfredo Pereira

Information expropriation and moral hazard in optimal second-source auctions pp. 463-484

Lars Stole

Volume 54, issue 2, 1994

Privatization in Eastern Europe: Irreversibility and critical mass effects pp. 161-183

Gérard Roland and Thierry Verdier

Individual behaviour in a free riding experiment pp. 185-200

Joachim Weimann

Are efficient linear taxes inequitable? pp. 201-221

Charles de Bartolome

The second theorem of the second best pp. 223-242

Karla Hoff

The impact of U.S. tax reform on foreign direct investment in the United States pp. 243-266

Deborah L. Swenson

Pigou and Coase: A mathematical reconciliation pp. 267-286

Allan C. DeSerpa

Public capital and the demand for private inputs pp. 287-307

Helmut Seitz

The provision of public goods via advertising: Existence of equilibria and welfare analysis pp. 309-321

Israel Luski and David Wettstein

Volume 54, issue 1, 1994

Group size and the voluntary provision of public goods: Experimental evidence utilizing large groups pp. 1-36

R. Isaac, James Walker and Arlington Williams

Tax policy and urban development: Evidence from the Indiana enterprise zone program pp. 37-49

Leslie Papke

Tax-earmarking and separate school financing pp. 51-63

Marc Bilodeau

An explanation for why senators from the same state vote differently so frequently pp. 65-96

Gi-Ryong Jung, Lawrence Kenny and John Lott

Transitional dynamics and the distribution of wealth in a neoclassical growth model pp. 97-119

Satyajit Chatterjee

Probability of purchase, amount of purchase, and the demographic incidence of the lottery tax pp. 121-143

Frank Scott and John Garen

Managing water supply shortage: Interruption vs. pricing pp. 145-160

Chi-Keung Woo