Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Measuring the inefficiences of tax systems pp. 265-287: John Kay and Michael Keen
A test for efficiency in the supply of public education pp. 289-307: Ted Bergstrom, Judith A. Roberts, Daniel L. Rubinfeld and Perry Shapiro
Private incentives in social dilemmas: The effects of incomplete information and altruism pp. 309-332: Thomas Palfrey and Howard Rosenthal
Economic competition among jurisdictions: efficiency enhancing or distortion inducing? pp. 333-354: Wallace Oates and Robert M. Schwab
Taxation and the household pp. 355-369: Patricia Apps and Ray Rees
A simple model for merit good arguments pp. 371-383: Timothy Besley
Price discriminating monetary policy: A nonuniform pricing approach pp. 385-392: Anne P. Villamil
Note on improving the effectiveness of effective tax rates on business investment pp. 393-396: Michael Sumner

Community development with endogenous land use controls pp. 133-162: Dennis Epple, Thomas Romer and Radu Filimon
Optimal environmental regulation under asymmetric information pp. 163-181: Daniel Spulber
Withholding and non-withheld tax evasion pp. 183-204: Gideon Yaniv
Existence of electoral equilibria with probabilistic voting pp. 205-227: Allan M. Feldman and Kyung-Ho Lee
Nash equilibria in models of fiscal competition pp. 229-240: David Wildasin
Boundary optima and the theory of public goods supply pp. 241-249: Donald E. Campbell and Michel Truchon
Optimal taxation of business and individual incomes pp. 251-263: Ching-huei Chang

The analysis of agricultural price reform pp. 1-24: David Newberry
The effect of food stamps on labor supply: A bivariate selection model pp. 25-56: Thomas Fraker and Robert Moffitt
Privately provided public goods in a large economy: The limits of altruism pp. 57-73: James Andreoni
Social security and the failure of annuity markets pp. 75-96: Peter G. C. Townley and Robin Boadway
Social security, liquidity, and early retirement pp. 97-117: James Kahn
Optimal shadow prices for public production pp. 119-127: Kare P. Hagen
Some analytics of the Laffer curve: A comment pp. 129-130: Vincenzo Denicolo'
Some analytics of the Laffer curve: Reply pp. 131-132: James Malcomson

Welfare ratios and distributionally sensitive cost-benefit analysis pp. 265-290: Charles Blackorby and David Donaldson
Asymmetric information in the credit market and discount rates for public investment pp. 291-309: Yoshitsugu Kanemoto
Limited countercyclical policies: An exploratory study pp. 311-328: Sean Becketti and John Haltiwanger
The consumption tax in the presence of altruistic cash and human capital bequests with endogenous fertility decisions pp. 329-354: Raymond G. Batina
Constrained Pareto-optimal taxation of labour and capital incomes pp. 355-366: Lars-Gunnar Svensson and Jörgen Weibull
Tax design in the presence of imperfect competition: An example pp. 367-378: Gareth Myles
The optimal linear income tax: A diagrammatic analysis pp. 379-390: Toshihiro Ihori

Hierarchical structure and the social costs of bribes and transfers pp. 129-142: Arye Hillman and Eliakim Katz
On the existence of Lindahl-Hotelling equilibria pp. 143-158: M. Khan and Rajiv Vohra
Competitive equilibrium and the core in club economies with anonymous crowding pp. 159-173: Suzanne Scotchmer and Myrna Wooders
Preferences and demand for local public spending pp. 175-188: Erik Schokkaert
The effect of social security on the steady state distribution of consumption pp. 189-210: C. Y. Cyrus Chu
Shadow prices and substitution in trade distorted economies pp. 211-242: Edward F. Buffie
The impact of public transfer expenditures on tax evasion: An experimental approach pp. 243-252: Winfried Becker, Heinz-Jurgen Buchner and Simon Sleeking
A note on king and fullerton's formulae to estimate the taxation of income from capital pp. 253-264: M. Fg. Scott

Disneyland monopoly, interlinkage and usurious interest rates pp. 1-17: Kaushik Basu
Performance versus design standards in the regulation of pollution pp. 19-44: David Besanko
The equity and efficiency of runway pricing pp. 45-60: Steven A. Morrison
Litigation, liability, and incentives for care pp. 61-85: Ivan Png
A general equilibrium model of crime commission and prevention pp. 87-103: William J. Furlong
The effects of lump-sum subsidies on the structure of production and productivity in regulated industries pp. 105-119: Moshe Kim and Menahem Spiegel
Transactions technology and the time consistency of optimal policy pp. 121-128: Christopher M. Towe

The economic effects of social security: Toward a reconciliation of theory and measurement pp. 273-304: B. Douglas Bernheim
On the design of incentive schemes under moral hazard and adverse selection pp. 305-331: Pierre Picard
Pricing cogenerated electricity and heat in local communities pp. 333-356: Mats Bohman and Roland Andersson
Comparing the marginal welfare costs of commodity and trade taxes pp. 357-362: Ramon L. Clarete and John Whalley
Taxation as insurance and the case of rate differentiation according to consanguinity under inheritance taxation pp. 363-376: Wolfram Richter
Tax reform and intergeneration incidence pp. 377-387: Toshihiro Ihori
The collected papers of Richard A. Musgrave: A review article pp. 389-398: Anthony Atkinson

Optimal taxation of a non-linear pricing monopolist pp. 137-155: Jean-Jacques Laffont
How burdensome are capital gains taxes?: Evidence from the United States pp. 157-172: James Poterba
Individual taxpayer response to tax cuts: 1982-1984: With implications for the revenue maximizing tax rate pp. 173-206: Lawrence B. Lindsey
Shadow prices for non-traded goods in a tax-distorted economy: Formulae and values pp. 207-221: Caroline Dinwiddy and Francis Teal
Corruption as a gamble pp. 223-244: Olivier Cadot
Disentangling the demand function from the production function for local public services: The case of public safety pp. 245-260: Robert M. Schwab and Ernest M. Zampelli
Equity, fairness and lindahl equilibria pp. 261-271: Toshihiro Sato

Taxes and transaction costs in asset market equilibrium pp. 1-20: Jonathan I. Leape
Towards a theory of famine relief policy pp. 21-39: Martin Ravallion
Taxes and the number of fringe benefits received pp. 41-57: Robert Turner
Stock externalities, Pigovian taxation and dynamic stability pp. 59-72: Dagobert Brito and Michael Intriligator
The measurement of waste in a public goods economy pp. 73-94: Atsushi Tsuneki
Neutral taxation under uncertainty pp. 95-105: G. Fane
Welfare effects of commodity tax harmonisation pp. 107-114: Michael Keen
Axiomatic foundations of Hicksian measures of welfare change pp. 115-124: Udo Ebert
A qualification concerning the efficiency of tax expenditures pp. 125-131: Patrick A. Driessen
The efficiency of tax expenditures: Reply pp. 133-136: Martin Feldstein