- Institutional Foundations of Public Finance
- Edited by Alan J. Auerbach
- Edited by Daniel N. Shaviro
- Auerbach integrates economic and legal perspectives on taxation and fiscal policy, offering a provocative assessment of the most important issues in public finance today.
- Hardcover 2009
- Modern Public Finance
- Edited by John M. Quigley
- Edited by Eugene Smolensky
- In this book, senior scholars in the field review and synthesize recent theoretical developments in important areas--optimal taxation, public sector dynamics, distribution theory, and club theory, to name a few--which challenge us to understand and improve public policy.
- Paperback 2000 / Hardcover
- Regulating Infrastructure
- José A. Gómez-Ibáñez
- In the 1980s and '90s many countries turned to the private sector to provide infrastructure and utilities with the idea that market-based incentives would control costs and improve the quality of essential services. But subsequent debacles including the collapse of California's wholesale electricity market and the bankruptcy of Britain's largest railroad company have raised troubling questions about privatization. This book addresses one of the most vexing of these: how can government fairly and effectively regulate "natural monopolies"--those infrastructure and utility services whose technologies make competition impractical? Rather than sticking to economics, José Gómez-Ibáñez draws on history, politics, and a wealth of examples to provide a road map for various approaches to regulation.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2006
- Welfare Reform
- Jeffrey Grogger
- Lynn A. Karoly
- In Welfare Reform, Jeffrey Grogger and Lynn Karoly assemble evidence from numerous studies to assess how welfare reform has affected behavior. To broaden our understanding of this wide-ranging policy reform, the authors evaluate the evidence in relation to an economic model of behavior.
- Hardcover 2005
- Who Decides the Budget?
- Mark Hallerberg
- Carlos Scartascini
- Ernesto Stein
- The budget is the main tool used to allocate scarce public resources, and it is in the context of the budget process that politicians must make trade-offs between different policy priorities. This volume describes the budget practices, both formal and informal, in ten countries of Latin America and explains fiscal results in terms of these four features.
- Paperback 2009