Public Finance

Labour Supply and Microsimulation

John Creedy, Guyonne Kalb

This book provides a detailed introduction to behavioural tax microsimulation methods and reviews the use of such models for evaluating tax policy reforms.

Hardback (2006)

List price ~~$174.00~~

Member price $156.60

Modelling Tax Revenue Growth

John Creedy, Norman Gemmell

This book demonstrates how the reliable measurement of growth in tax revenues, both for a tax system and for its component taxes, is important for the design of tax policy. The need for discretionary changes in tax parameters (such as ta...

Hardback (March 2006)

List price ~~$141.00~~

Member price $126.90

Out of Stock

eBook:

$40.00

Pension Systems

Edited by Elsa Fornero, Paolo Sestito

Pension Systems enters into the current lively debate on European pensions. The focus of the book is the analysis of public intervention in individuals’ retirement choice, its rationale and the desirability of legislation introducing a s...

Hardback (August 2005)

List price ~~$154.00~~

Member price $138.60

Out of Stock

The Theory of Environmental Agreements and Taxes

Martin Enevoldsen

Although there is a huge demand for accurate analysis of environmental policy outcomes in both the academic and policy-making communities, there is currently very little theoretical research on this issue. This ambitious book redresses t...

Hardback (June 2005)

List price ~~$164.00~~

Member price $147.60

Out of Stock

eBook:

$40.00

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...

Hardback (2005)

List price ~~$395.00~~

Member price $355.50

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...

Hardback (2004)

List price ~~$163.00~~

Member price $146.70

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...

Hardback (January 2004)

List price ~~$147.00~~

Member price $132.30

Out of Stock

Restructuring Local Government Finance in Developing Countries

Edited by Roy Bahl, Paul Smoke

Examining cutting-edge issues of international relevance in the ongoing redesign of the South African local government fiscal system, the contributors to this volume analyze the major changes that have taken place since the demise of apa...

List price ~~$168.00~~

Member price $151.20

eBook:

$40.00

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...

List price ~~$147.00~~

Member price $132.30

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...

List price ~~$147.00~~

Member price $132.30

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...

List price ~~$134.00~~

Member price $120.60