Public Finance

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)

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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)

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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...

Hardback (2005)

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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...

Hardback (2004)

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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)

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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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Hardback (September 2003)

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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