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The Economics of Public Private Partnerships
Edited by Darrin Grimsey, Mervyn K. Lewis
This important collection presents an authoritative selection of papers on public private partnerships. The literature is relatively new, and draws on the disciplines of both economics and engineering. As well as examining the recent exp... -
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Reforming Pensions in Europe
Edited by Gerard Hughes, Jim Stewart
Since the early 1990s the countries of the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe have been involved in the process of reforming their retirement income systems. The principal objective of these reforms is to contain the cost of p... -
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![Sustainable Fiscal Policy and Economic Stability]()
Sustainable Fiscal Policy and Economic Stability
Philippe Burger
The public debt/GDP ratio in several countries showed the largest ever peacetime increase during the last 20 years of the twentieth century, thereby causing widespread fiscal unsustainability. Towards the latter half of the 1990s, severa... -
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![Pension Policy in an Integrating Europe]()
Pension Policy in an Integrating Europe
Edited by Onorato Castellino, Elsa Fornero
This book focuses on pension policies in Europe and interestingly includes comparisons both within the EU and between EU countries and the US. The authors show how different countries are confronted with similar problems and that compari... -
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On Creating Competition and Strategic Restructuring
Edited by Emiel F.M. Wubben, William Hulsink
This book examines the ongoing transformation of public utilities, also known as network-based industries, in Western Europe and the United States. Examples are telecommunications, energy, and water distribution. Most of these network-ba... -
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Privatising Old-Age Security
Katharina Müller
In the 1990s many Latin American countries decided upon full or partial pension privatisation, and a similar wave of reforms is currently taking place in Eastern Europe. Privatising Old-Age Security aims to examine what may account for t... -
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Controlling Public Expenditure
Edited by John Wanna, Lotte Jensen, Jouke de Vries
One of the most important functions of modern government is to marshal and deploy resources to achieve desired objectives and outcomes. This task is overseen by the Central Budget Agencies (such as Ministries of Finance and Treasuries) w... -
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Public Finance in Developing and Transitional Countries
Edited by Jorge Martinez-Vazquez, James Alm
It is hard to think of anyone who has contributed so much and so widely to research in international public finance in the last 40 years as has Richard Bird. This volume of essays emerged from a conference dedicated to him. It also expan... -
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The Distribution of Tax Burdens
Edited by Don Fullerton, Gilbert E. Metcalf
The Distribution of Tax Burdens brings together for the first time the most important published papers on tax incidence written in the past 50 years. The editors, two leading scholars in public finance, have written an authoritative intr... -
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![The Economics of Budget Deficits]()
The Economics of Budget Deficits
Edited by Charles K. Rowley, William F. Shughart II, Robert D. Tollison
The Economics of Budget Deficits provides a comprehensive overview of the scholarly literature exploring the causes and consequences of deficit spending and the public debt. Incorporating classical, Keynesian and public choice analyses o... -
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Cost–Benefit Analysis
Edited by Arnold C. Harberger, Glenn P. Jenkins
Cost–Benefit Analysis presents an authoritative collection of the most important published articles in the field together with an extensive new introduction by the editors. Whilst focusing on the practical side, looking at applications s... -
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Private Initiatives in Infrastructure
Edited by Sanford V. Berg, Michael G. Pollitt, Masatsugu Tsuji
Public-private collaboration in infrastructure projects takes place in a variety of institutional frameworks worldwide. This volume considers the different cultural, political and legal settings in the US, UK, Japan and other countries a...eBook:Find out more$40.00
