Surveys in Public Sector Economics

Abstract

PART I PUBLIC SECTOR PRODUCTION 2. Shadow Pricing in the Public Sector (Peter Hammond Professor of Economics, Stanford University) 3. Regulation of Public Utilities and Nationalized Industries (Ingo Vogelsang Professor of Economics, Boston University) 4. Economics of Publicly Provided Goods and Services (Paul Hare Professor of Economics, Heriot Watt University) PART II DISTRIBUTION AND WELFARE 5. The Political Economy of Fiscal Policy (Daniel Ingberman and Robert Inman respectively Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Management, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Finance, Economics and Public Management, University of Pennsylvania) 6. Policy Targetting in a New Welfare Framework with Poverty (John Beath, Geoff Lewis and David Ulph both John Beath and Geoff Lewis are Lecturers in Economics, Bristol University David Ulph is Professor of Economics, Bristol University) 7. The Structure of Income and Commodity Taxation (Christopher Heady Lecturer in Economics, University College, London) PART III ESTIMATION AND COMPUTATION 8. Econometric Issues in Public Sector Economics (Richard Blundell Director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies) 9. General Equilibrium Computation Applied to Public Sector Issues (John Piggot Professor of Economics, University of Sydney with Appendix by Jon Fuller)