Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition [electronic resource] / edited by Parkash Chander, Jacques Drȿze, C. Knox Lovell, Jack Mintz.

Decentralised Resource Allocation Processes for Public and Private Goods -- Dynamic Processes for Public Goods: An Institution-Oriented Survey -- Surplus-Sharing Local Games in Dynamic Exchange Processes -- Exchange Processes, the Core and Competitive Allocations -- Commodity Exchanges as Gradient Processes -- Environment, Public Goods and Externalities -- An Economic Model of International Negotiations Relating to Transfrontier Pollution -- Theoretical Foundations of Negotiations and Cost Sharing in Transfrontier Pollution Problems -- The Acid Rain Game as a Resource Allocation Process, with Application to Negotiations Between Finland, Russia and Estonia -- The Core of an Economy with Multilateral Environmental Externalities -- A Core-Theoretic Solution for the Design of Cooperative Agreements on Transfrontier Pollution -- The Kyoto Protocol: An Economic and Game Theoretic Interpretation -- Simulating Coalitionally Stable Burden Sharing Agreements for the Climate Change Problem -- Transfers to Sustain Dynamic Core-Theoretic Cooperation in International Stock Pollutant Control -- Efficiency Analysis -- Measuring Labor-Efficiency in Post Offices -- On FDH Efficiency Analysis: Some Methodological Issues and Applications to Retail Banking, Courts and Urban Transit -- Assessing and Explaining the Performance of Public Enterprises: Some Recent Evidence from the Productive Efficiency Viewpoint -- Non-Frontier Measures of Efficiency, Progress and Regress for Time Series Data -- Nonparametric Efficiency, Progress and Regress Measures For Panel Data: Methodological Aspects -- Efficiency Dominance Analysis (EDA): Basic Methodology -- Fiscal Competition And Optimality -- Commodity Tax Competition Between Member States of a Federation: Equilibrium and Efficiency -- On Pareto Improving Commodity Tax Changes Under Fiscal Competition -- Optimality Properties of Alternative Systems of Taxation of Foreign Capital Income -- Tax Interaction Dynamics Among Belgian Municipalities 1984-1997.

The twenty-two papers collected in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens, an applied theorist, on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The collection is structured in four parts: I. Decentralized resource allocation processes for public and private goods II. Environment, public goods and externalities III. Efficiency analysis IV. Fiscal competition and optimality The four pictures above evoke a key concept, method or model used in each of these four parts: > MDP-type processes to determine feasible paths to efficiency and coalitional stability. > CLIMNEG World Simulation model to explore alternative environmental scenarios for the planet. > Free Disposal Hull efficiency analysis to drop convexity and help deal with outliers. > Non Cooperative Fiscal Equilbria to characterize the outcomes of fiscal competition

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