Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Tax reform results with different demand systems pp. 277-296: André Decoster and Erik Schokkaert
Taxing capital in a large, open economy pp. 297-317: Anne Sibert
Plea bargaining with the irs pp. 319-333: C. Y. Cyrus Chu
On Pareto improving commodity tax changes under fiscal competition pp. 335-350: Alain de Crombrugghe and Henry Tulkens
Inequality and welfare in market economies pp. 351-367: James Foster, Mukul K. Majumdar and Tapan Mitra
Regulating externalities through testing pp. 369-387: Ronald Grieson and Nirvikar Singh
Public goods and dynamic efficiency: The modified Samuelson rule pp. 389-400: Raymond G. Batina

A dynamic model of voter behavior and the demand for public goods among social groups in Great Britain pp. 147-182: Arthur J. H. C. Schram
A model of female labour supply in the presence of hours restrictions pp. 183-210: Seija Ilmakunnas and Stephen Pudney
Victim compensation revisited: Efficiency versus equity in the siting of noxious facilities pp. 211-225: Arthur M. Sullivan
Endogenous fertility, Ricardian equivalence, and debt management policy pp. 227-248: Harvey Lapan and Walter Enders
The constitutional politics of public debt pp. 249-261: Marilyn R. Flowers
Marginal welfare cost calculations: Differential analysis vs. balanced-budget analysis pp. 263-276: Charles Ballard

The design of direct taxation and family benefits pp. 3-29: Anthony Atkinson and François Bourguignon
Imperfect annuity markets, unintended bequests, and the optimal age structure of social security benefits pp. 31-43: Martin Feldstein
The impact of the potential duration of unemployment benefits on the duration of unemployment pp. 45-72: Lawrence Katz and Bruce Meyer
Incentive effects of workers' compensation insurance pp. 73-99: Alan Krueger
The effect of the U.S. welfare system on marital status pp. 101-124: Robert Moffitt
Wage differentials between the public and private sectors pp. 125-145: P. J. Pederson, J. B. Schmidt-Sorensen, Nina Smith and N. Westergard-Nielsen

Measuring the cost of capital when taxes are changing with foresight pp. 261-292: Mark Robson
Tobin's q, investment, and the endogenous adjustment of financial structure pp. 293-318: William P. Osterberg
Taxation, risk, and returns to scale pp. 319-330: Richard M. Peck
General equilibrium analysis of black and white markets: a computational approach pp. 331-347: Trien Nguyen and John Whalley
Relative shadow prices and the shadow exchange rate pp. 349-358: Caroline Dinwiddy and Francis Teal
Commodity taxation and imperfect competition: A note on the effects of entry pp. 359-367: Timothy Besley

Eliminating price supports: A political economy perspective pp. 159-185: Tracy Lewis, Robert Feenstra and Roger Ware
Demand for charity donations in private non-profit markets: The case of the U.K pp. 187-200: John Posnett and Todd Sandler
Note on the shape of the optimum income tax schedule pp. 201-215: Eytan Sheshinski
Uncertain lifetime, the annuity market, and estate taxation pp. 217-235: Sheng Cheng Hu
Optimal two-part tariffs for inputs: The case of imperfect competition pp. 237-249: J. C. Panzar and D. S. Sibley
The nature of government expenditures and the shape of the laffer curve pp. 251-260: Firouz Gahvari

The deadweight loss from `non-neutral' capital income taxation pp. 1-36: Alan Auerbach
Aggregate and distributional effects of fair social security pp. 37-56: Edi Karni and Itzhak Zilcha
How elastic is the government's demand for weapons? pp. 57-78: Frank Lichtenberg
Workfare or welfare? pp. 79-97: Robert Chambers
Choice of tax base under uncertainty: Consumption or income? pp. 99-134: Syed Ahsan
A game theoretical approach to reconstruction of public finance pp. 135-150: Koichi Futagami
Inflation, taxes, and asset prices: A note on wealth effects and asset complementarity pp. 151-157: Jonas Agell

Analyzing the length of welfare spells pp. 245-273: Rebecca Blank
Optimal firm size, taxes, and unemployment pp. 275-287: Kenneth Burdett and Randall Wright
Investment and shadow pricing in a growing economy with tax restrictions pp. 289-313: Christopher J. Harris, Christopher J. Heady and Pradeep K. Mitra
Dynamic rent seeking pp. 315-334: Robert Cairns
Labour supply, welfare rankings and the measurement of inequality pp. 335-364: Patricia Apps and Elizabeth Savage
Concentrated objective functions for nonlinear taxation models pp. 365-375: Robert Chambers
Household equivalence scales and welfare comparisons pp. 377-391: Arthur Lewbel

Publicly provided disaster insurance for health and the control of moral hazard pp. 141-156: Timothy Besley
Tax-transfer policies and the voluntary provision of public goods pp. 157-176: Robin Boadway, Pierre Pestieau and David Wildasin
The value of screening mechanisms under alternative insurance possibilities pp. 177-206: Michael Hoy
Between anarchy and leviathan: A note on the design of federal states pp. 207-221: Christopher Ross Bell
Indirect tax evasion and production efficiency pp. 223-237: Arvind Virmani
A note on the continuity of incentive schedules pp. 239-243: Jörgen Weibull

Birth, death and taxes pp. 1-15: Andrew Abel
An expenditure-based estimate of Britain's black economy pp. 17-32: Christopher Pissarides and Guglielmo Weber
The role of interest rate taxes in credit markets with divisible projects and asymmetric information pp. 33-44: David de Meza and David Webb
Two-part tariffs as regulatory constraints pp. 45-66: Ingo Vogelsang
Tax reform via commodity grouping pp. 67-81: James P. F. Gordon
The incidence of regional taxes in a general equilibrium framework pp. 83-107: John Mutti, William Morgan and Mark Partridge
Capital income taxation in a two-commodity life cycle model: The role of factor intensity and asset capitalization effects pp. 109-126: James Davies, John Whalley and Bob Hamilton
Why was there mandatory retirement? pp. 127-136: Kevin Lang
Harmonisation of commodity taxes: The restricted origin principle -- comment pp. 137-139: Theodore A. Georgakopoulos