Journal of Public Economics

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Volume 26, issue 3, 1985

Market equilibrium with private knowledge: An insurance example pp. 269-288

Howard Kunreuther and Mark Pauly

An alternative approach to aggregate surplus analysis pp. 289-302

Richard Harris and David Wildasin

Uncertain lifetimes and the welfare enhancing properties of annuity markets and social security pp. 303-326

Zvi Eckstein, Martin Eichenbaum and Dan Peled

Income tax policy and lifetime labor supply pp. 327-347

Richard A. Ippolito

The benefits and costs of the section 8 existing housing program pp. 349-377

William J. Reeder

Technology and public goods pp. 379-400

Ulrich Kohli

Volume 26, issue 2, 1985

Average cost pricing versus marginal cost pricing under moral hazard pp. 135-146

Xavier Freixas and Jean-Jacques Laffont

Capital income taxation and perfect foresight pp. 147-167

Robert Becker

Incentive effects of benevolent intervention: The case of government loan guarantees pp. 169-189

Paul K. Chaney and Anjan Thakor

The efficiency of equilibrium traffic flows pp. 191-205

Julio Rotemberg

The efficiency of competitive equilibria in insurance markets with asymmetric information pp. 207-219

Keith J. Crocker and Arthur Snow

Characteristics, consumer surplus, and new activities: A proposed ski area pp. 221-236

Edward Morey

The effect of an anticipated tax change on investment in Britain pp. 237-247

Michael Sumner

Migration and education subsidies by governments: A game-theoretic analysis pp. 249-262

M. A. Webb

Tax evasion and heuristics: A research note pp. 263-267

Michael W. Spicer and Rodney E. Hero

Volume 26, issue 1, 1985

Income tax compliance in a principal-agent framework pp. 1-18

Jennifer Reinganum and Louis L. Wilde

Tax evasion with labour income pp. 19-34

Frank Cowell

On a simple rule for the optimal inflation rate in second best taxation pp. 35-50

Christophe Chamley

Public goods provision in an experimental environment pp. 51-74

R. Isaac, Kenneth F. McCue and Charles Plott

Lifetime income and public pension: An analysis of the effect on redistribution using a two-period analysis pp. 75-87

Keiko Shimono and Toshiaki Tachibanaki

The relative performance of publicly-owned and privately-owned electric utilities pp. 89-106

R. Fare, Shawna Grosskopf and J. Logan

Tax policy and foreign direct investment pp. 107-121

David G. Hartman

A general disequilibrium model of tax incidence pp. 123-133

Ching-huei Chang

Volume 25, issue 3, 1984

Caesarea workshop on public economics: Introduction pp. 257-258

Nicholas Stern

The theory of reform and indian indirect taxes pp. 259-298

Ehtisham Ahmad and Nicholas Stern

Quantities, qualities and multiple public services in the Tiebout model pp. 299-321

Eitan Berglas

Transfer principles in income redistribution pp. 323-328

Peter C. Fishburn and Robert Willig

A complete solution to a class of principal-agent problems with an application to the control of a self-managed firm pp. 329-369

Roger Guesnerie and Jean-Jacques Laffont

Advances in supervision technology and economic welfare: a general equilibrium analysis pp. 371-389

Janusz A. Ordover and Carl Shapiro

Volume 25, issue 1-2, 1984

Dragon-slaying and ballroom dancing: The private supply of a public good pp. 1-12

Christopher Bliss and Barry Nalebuff

Social criteria for evaluating population change pp. 13-33

Charles Blackorby and David Donaldson

Dynamic effects of the unemployment insurance tax on temporary layoffs pp. 35-51

Jeffrey Wolcowitz

Measuring the value of life saving from consumer reactions to new information pp. 53-81

Pauline M. Ippolito and Richard A. Ippolito

Complementarity, free riding, and the military expenditures of NATO allies pp. 83-101

James Murdoch and Todd Sandler

The welfare effects of intergovernmental grants in an economy with distortionary local taxes: A simple general equilibrium analysis pp. 103-125

David Wildasin

Provision of public goods in congested cities pp. 127-141

Hans Wijkander

The effects of social security reforms on retirement ages and retirement incomes pp. 143-159

Gary Fields and Olivia Mitchell

Necessary and sufficient conditions for single-peakedness in public economic models pp. 161-179

Peter Coughlin and Melvin Hinich

On indirect tax evasion pp. 181-196

Massimo Marrelli

Committees and rent-seeking effort pp. 197-209

Roger Congleton

Incidence and efficiency aspects of differential taxation of residential and industrial capital in a growing economy pp. 211-233

Firouz Gahvari

Utility functions for public outputs and majority voting pp. 235-243

Behzad Diba and Allan M. Feldman

An alternative model for studying the incidence of indirect taxes pp. 245-254

João Sanson

Volume 24, issue 3, 1984

Equilibrium among local jurisdictions: toward an integrated treatment of voting and residential choice pp. 281-308

Dennis Epple, Radu Filimon and Thomas Romer

The excise tax effects of the property tax pp. 309-329

John Wilson

The nonexcludable publicness of primary and secondary public education pp. 331-351

James Wyckoff

Public health insurance and optimal income taxation pp. 353-371

Ake Blomqvist and Henrik Horn

Separation of the redistributive and allocative functions of government: A public choice perspective pp. 373-380

Marilyn R. Flowers and Patricia Danzon

`Linear' income tax cuts: distributional effects, social preferences and revenue elasticities pp. 381-388

Wilhelm Pfahler

An optional tax system pp. 389-395

A. A. Sampson

Volume 24, issue 2, 1984

Revealing demand for an actual public good pp. 135-151

Peter Bohm

Discount rates and shadow prices for public investment pp. 153-169

Maurice Marchand and Pierre Pestieau

Participation and the provision of discrete public goods: a strategic analysis pp. 171-193

Thomas Palfrey and Howard Rosenthal

Which commodity taxes should supplement the income tax? pp. 195-220

Vidar Christiansen

Income distribution policies with endogenous fertility pp. 221-230

Marc Nerlove, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka

A general proposition on the design of a neutral business tax pp. 231-239

Robin Boadway and Neil Bruce

Optimal taxation, the compensation principle and the measurement of changes in economic welfare pp. 241-247

Julian Le Grand

Voluntariness and efficiency in the provision of public goods pp. 249-256

Joaquim Silvestre

Incentives in government contracts pp. 257-270

Stefan Reichelstein and Kent Osband

Efficient timing of income taxes pp. 271-280

Geoffrey Kingston

Volume 24, issue 1, 1984

Welfare implications of net social security wealth pp. 1-27

Leigh Tesfatsion

Effluent fees and market structure pp. 29-46

Wallace Oates and Diana Strassmann

Disability transfers and early retirement: a casual relationship? pp. 47-66

Robert Haveman and Barbara Wolfe

A positive model of tax structure pp. 67-87

Walter Hettich and Stanley Winer

The optimal use of fines and imprisonment pp. 89-99

A. Mitchell Polinsky and Steven Shavell

Partial welfare improvements and capital income taxation pp. 101-109

Toshihiro Ihori

Uncertainty and pollution: The role of indirect taxation pp. 111-122

Evan Koenig

Further discussion on controllability and the theory of economic policy pp. 123-125

Giovanni Tondini

Controllability and the theory of economic policy: A further note pp. 127-129

Willem Buiter and Mark Gersovitz

A theory of inequality and taxation: Patricia Apps, (Cambridge University Press, 1982) pp. 132, [UK pound]16.50 pp. 131-133

Agnar Sandmo