Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Intertemporally consistent shadow prices in an open economy: Estimates for Cyprus pp. 263-285: Clive Bell and Shantayanan Devarajan
Peer group effects and educational attainment pp. 287-305: Richard Arnott and John Rowse
Assistance to the poor in a federal system pp. 307-330: Charles Brown and Wallace Oates
The impact of congestion on local public good production pp. 331-353: Steven Craig
Strategic behaviour: Some experimental evidence pp. 355-368: Jeffrey Bennett
The ineffectiveness of effective tax rates on business investment: A critique of Feldstein's Fisher-Schultz lecture pp. 369-387: Bob Chirinko
Tax rates and business investment: Reply pp. 389-396: Martin Feldstein

The effects of taxation, price control and government contracts in oligopoly and monopolistic competition pp. 133-158: Nicholas Stern
Volunteer labor supply pp. 159-183: Paul Menchik and Burton A. Weisbrod
Tax structure and public sector growth pp. 185-201: Daniel Feenberg and Harvey Rosen
Progressive taxation and the equal sacrifice principle pp. 203-214: H. Young
Expenditure taxes, income taxes, and time-inconsistency pp. 215-230: Carol Rogers
The effect of nontransferable property rights on the efficiency of political markets: Some evidence pp. 231-246: John Lott
A Shoven-Whalley model of a small open economy: An illustration with Philippine tariffs pp. 247-261: Ramon L. Clarete and James Roumasset

Fiscal incidence in an overlapping generations model with a fixed asset pp. 3-24: Christophe Chamley and Brian Wright
The indexation of interest, depreciation, and capital gains and tax reform in the United States pp. 25-51: Don Fullerton
A model of tax reform for Belgium pp. 53-77: Serge Wibaut
An economic model of the intake disposition of juvenile offenders pp. 79-99: Kevin Lang and Duran Bell
Unemployment benefits and unemployment rates revisited: A general equilibrium job search model pp. 101-118: Kostas Mavromaras
The walrasian mechanism from equal division is not monotonic with respect to variations in the number of consumers pp. 119-124: Graciela Chichilnisky and William Thomson
The population monotonicity property and the transfer paradox pp. 125-132: Ronald Jones

The price of government ownership: A study of the Domtar takeover pp. 269-285: Anthony Boardman, Ruth Freedman and Catherine Eckel
Shadow pricing with suboptimal policy rules pp. 287-305: Dilip Mookherjee
Strategic bias and demand for public goods: Theory and an application to the arts pp. 307-327: David Throsby and Glenn Withers
Randomization of commodity taxes: An expenditure minimization approach pp. 329-345: Fwu-Ranq Chang and David Wildasin
Capital income taxation in growing open economies pp. 347-376: Lans Bovenberg
The redistributive roles of unemployment insurance and the dynamics of voting pp. 377-399: Randall Wright

Choice under uncertainty: A model of applications for the social security disability insurance program pp. 131-161: Janice Halpern and Jerry A. Hausman
The optimal linear income tax revisited pp. 163-179: Martin F. Hellwig
Sequential procurement auctions pp. 181-195: Richard Luton and Randolph McAfee
Taxes, intermediate goods, and relative prices: The case of variable coefficients pp. 197-213: Kul Bhatia
A dynamic model of corruption deterrence pp. 215-236: Francis Lui
Public pensions as optimal social contracts pp. 237-251: Michael Veall
Sensitivity of `optimal' commodity tax rates to alternative demand functional forms: An econometric case study of India pp. 253-268: Ranjan Ray

Saving and the life-cycle: A Cohort analysis pp. 1-24: Toshiaki Tachibanaki and Keiko Shimono
Time inconsistency of benevolent government economies pp. 25-52: Leigh Tesfatsion
Characterizations of the pivotal mechanism pp. 53-78: Herve Moulin
An intertemporal general equilibrium analysis of financial crowding out: A policy model and an application to Australia pp. 79-104: Andrew Feltenstein
Duration dependence, targeted employment subsidies and unemployment benefits pp. 105-129: Weng T. Hui and Pravin Trivedi

A pigovian rule for the optimum provision of public goods pp. 273-291: Mervyn A. King
Optimal taxation and public production in an open dual economy pp. 293-316: Christopher J. Heady and Pradeep K. Mitra
Unemployment insurance and involuntary unemployment: The case of adverse selection pp. 317-328: Stephen Jones
A general equilibrium analysis of financial regulation pp. 329-340: Oscar Varela and Richard E. Olson
Welfare and comparative statics implications of fair social security: A steady-state analysis pp. 341-357: Edi Karni and Itzhak Zilcha
Interindustry flows and the incidence of the corporate income tax pp. 359-368: John L. Solow
Fraudulent collection of unemployment benefits: A theoretical analysis with reference to income tax evasion pp. 369-383: Gideon Yaniv
Distributionally-neutral tax changes for different inequality concepts pp. 385-393: Andreas Pfingsten
Wealth effects, treasury bill financing, perpetuity financing, and stability pp. 395-398: Yeung-Nan Shieh

Theory of optimal taxation pp. 137-143: P. A. Samuelson
Household formation, housing prices, and public policy impacts pp. 145-164: Axel Borsch-Supan
An upper bound on optimal income taxes pp. 165-181: Lars-Gunnar Svensson and Jörgen Weibull
On the optimal income taxation and educational decisions pp. 183-198: Matti Tuomala
A reduced-form optimal nonlinear income tax problem pp. 199-217: John Weymark
The optimal linear income tax with tax credits contingent on fertility pp. 219-235: Raymond G. Batina
Overlapping generations, competitive efficiency and optimal population pp. 237-247: Murray Kemp and Hitoshi Kondo
Incentive compatible discount rates for public investment pp. 249-257: Ray Rees
Cost-minimizing welfare programs pp. 259-265: Ronald A. Dye and Rick Antle
Bounds on the willingness to pay for non-traded goods: A possibility theorem pp. 267-272: Jon R. Neill

Project evaluation by potential tax reform pp. 1-36: Peter Hammond
Tax incidence in a model with perfect foresight of agents and rationing in markets pp. 37-59: Theo van de Klundert and P. Peters
The short-run and long-run benefits of environmental improvement pp. 61-81: Suzanne Scotchmer
Demand for collective goods in private nonprofit markets: Can fundraising expenditures help overcome free-rider behavior? pp. 83-96: Burton A. Weisbrod and Nestor D. Dominguez
Crime and punishment again: The economic approach with a psychological twist pp. 97-107: William T. Dickens
Uncertain parameter values and the choice among policy options pp. 109-116: Don Fullerton and Andrew Lyon
The failure of Ricardian equivalence under progressive wealth taxation pp. 117-128: Andrew Abel
Benevolent preferences and pure public goods pp. 129-134: S. Q. Lemche