Journal of Public Economics

1972 - 2025

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

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Some analytics of the laffer curve pp. 263-279: James Malcomson
The relative efficiency of public and private firms in a regulated environment: The case of U.S. electric utilities pp. 281-294: Scott Atkinson and Robert Halvorsen
Quality, quantity and total expenditures on publicly provided goods: the case of public mental hospitals pp. 295-316: Richard G. Frank and Mark S. Kamlet
The effect of regulation on nonuniform electricity price schedules in the united states pp. 317-332: J. Stephen Henderson
Types of bureaucratic interaction pp. 333-345: Karl Ove Moene
Externality regulation and the monopoly firm pp. 347-362: Robert E. Martin
The incidence of heterogeneous residential property taxes pp. 363-373: Paul Hobson
Social criteria for evaluating population change: An alternative to the Blackorby-Donaldson criterion pp. 375-381: Yew-Kwang Ng
Measurable welfare change with optimal commodity taxation pp. 383-387: Allen J. Scafuri

Commodity tax competition between member states of a federation: equilibrium and efficiency pp. 133-172: Jack Mintz and Henry Tulkens
Job search, wage offers, and unemployment insurance pp. 173-197: David Blau and Philip Robins
State restrictions on local debt: Their role in preventing default pp. 199-221: Dennis Epple and Chester Spatt
The optimal property tax with mobile nonresidential capital pp. 223-239: Geoffrey K. Turnbull and Yoshio Niho
Capital income taxation, depletion allowances, and nonrenewable resource extraction pp. 241-253: Gérard Gaudet and Pierre Lasserre
Less than single dividend taxation: A note pp. 255-261: Diderik Lund

Moral hazard and optimal commodity taxation pp. 1-24: Richard Arnott and Joseph Stiglitz
On the private provision of public goods pp. 25-49: Ted Bergstrom, Lawrence Blume and Hal Varian
Equilibrium taxation and experience rating in a federal system of unemployment insurance pp. 51-77: James Adams
Equivalence scales, horizontal equity and optimal taxation under utilitarianism pp. 79-97: Yves Balcer and Efraim Sadka
Welfare effects of changing commodity tax rates toward uniformity pp. 99-112: Tatsuo Hatta
A general equilibrium analysis of property tax incidence pp. 113-132: Chuan Lin

Nobel symposium 61: The growth of government pp. 273-273: Assar Lindbeck, Johan Myhrman and Bjorn Wittrock
Introduction: Reflections on the growth of government pp. 275-285: Johan Myhrman
Excess bias and the nature of budget growth pp. 287-308: Richard A. Musgrave
Redistribution policy and the expansion of the public sector pp. 309-328: Assar Lindbeck
Public policies, pressure groups, and dead weight costs pp. 329-347: Gary Becker
A cultural theory of expenditure growth and (Un)balanced budgets pp. 349-357: Aaron Wildavsky
The causes of government expenditure growth: A survey of the U.S. evidence pp. 359-382: Thomas E. Borcherding
The growth of government in the United States: An economic historian's perspective pp. 383-399: Douglass North

The social cost of labor and project evaluation: A general approach pp. 135-163: Raaj Kumar Sah and Joseph Stiglitz
An analysis of the stabilizing and welfare effects of intervention in spot and futures markets pp. 165-209: Robert B. Campbell and Stephen J Turnovsky
Regulation of prices and pollution under incomplete information pp. 211-231: David P. Baron
Debt and taxes in the theory of public finance pp. 233-245: Martin Feldstein
Uniqueness of equilibrium in large-scale numerical general equilibrium models pp. 247-254: Timothy Kehoe and John Whalley
A note on the effects of capital income taxation on the dynamics of a competitive economy pp. 255-265: Jean-Pierre Danthine and John B. Donaldson
A note on the marginal tax rate in a finite economy pp. 267-272: Ailsa A. Roell

Input versus output incentive schemes pp. 1-23: Eric Maskin and John Riley
The impact of state economic differentials on household welfare and labor force behavior pp. 25-58: Rebecca Blank
Redistributive taxation in a simple perfect foresight model pp. 59-83: Kenneth Judd
Using corrective taxes to remedy consumer misperceptions pp. 85-94: Amihai Glazer
The choice of excise taxes when savings and labour decisions are distorted pp. 95-110: Vidar Christiansen
Correcting externalities through taxes on/subsidies to related goods pp. 111-125: Hans Wijkander
Commodity taxes under uncertainty pp. 127-134: Robert Fraser

Corporate finance side of the Q theory of investment pp. 261-280: Fumio Hayashi
Taxation within Cournot oligopoly pp. 281-290: Dan Levin
The taxation of capital income in an open economy: the importance of resident-nonresident tax treatment pp. 291-309: John Mutti and Harry Grubert
A theoretical analysis of incremental investment incentives with an application to the case of industrial R & D pp. 311-329: Edward Hughes and Donald McFetridge
Tax revenue and the marginal cost of public funds in Sweden pp. 331-353: Ingemar Hansson and Charles Stuart
A three-sector model for real property tax incedence pp. 355-370: Ferdinand P. Schoettle
Toward `privatization' of public sector output: decentralized contracting for public and private goods pp. 371-387: Robert A. Collinge

Population composition of cities: Restructuring the tiebout model pp. 131-156: J. Vernon Henderson
Tax treatment of housing in a dynamic sequenced general equilibrium model pp. 157-175: Bob Hamilton and John Whalley
Shadow prices, consistency and the value of life pp. 177-193: Ian Dobbs
The benefits of in-kind government programs pp. 195-210: Robert M. Schwab
Optimal tax reform in the presence of adjustment costs pp. 211-230: George Zodrow
Tax evasion and labor markets pp. 231-246: Harry Watson
Optimal policy rules and regime switching in disequilibrium models pp. 247-254: John Cuddington, Per-Olov Johansson and Henry Ohlsson
Achieving the first best in small economies pp. 255-260: Franklin Allen

The normative and positive aspects of the taxation of imputed rent on owner-occupied housing pp. 1-23: David Pines, Efraim Sadka and Eytan Sheshinski
Profit-maximizing clubs pp. 25-45: Suzanne Scotchmer
Candidate reputations and the `incumbency effect' pp. 47-67: Dan Bernhardt and Daniel E. Ingerman
Urban squatting and community organization in developing countries pp. 69-92: Emmanuel Jimenez
Endogenous fertility and optimal population size pp. 93-106: Zvi Eckstein and Kenneth I. Wolpin
Information-eliciting compensation schemes pp. 107-115: Kent Osband and Stefan Reichelstein
Consistent conjectures and voluntary contributions to public goods: why the conventional theory does not work pp. 117-124: Robert Sugden
On the consistency of conjectures with public goods pp. 125-129: Richard Cornes and Todd Sandler