Public Goods, Environmental Externalities and Fiscal Competition : Selected Papers on Competition, Efficiency, and Cooperation in Public Economics by Henry Tulkens

"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 Equilibria to characterize the outcomes of fiscal competition."--Publisher's website Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-2 Introduction....Pages 3-7 Dynamic Processes for Public Goods: An Institution-Oriented Survey....Pages 9-48 Surplus-Sharing Local Games in Dynamic Exchange Processes....Pages 49-62 Exchange Processes, the Core and Competitive Allocations....Pages 64-79 Commodity Exchanges as Gradient Processes....Pages 81-95 Front Matter....Pages 97-99 Introduction....Pages 101-105 An Economic Model of International Negotiations Relating to Transfrontier Pollution....Pages 107-121 Theoretical Foundations of Negotiations and Cost Sharing in Transfrontier Pollution Problems....Pages 123-134 The Acid Rain Game as a Resource Allocation Process, with Application to Negotiations Between Finland, Russia and Estonia....Pages 135-152 The Core of an Economy with Multilateral Environmental Externalities....Pages 153-175 A Core-Theoretic Solution for the Design of Cooperative Agreements on Transfrontier Pollution....Pages 176-193 The Kyoto Protocol: An Economic and Game Theoretic Interpretation....Pages 195-215 Simulating Coalitionally Stable Burden Sharing Agreements for the Climate Change Problem....Pages 218-249 Transfers to Sustain Dynamic Core-Theoretic Cooperation in International Stock Pollutant Control....Pages 251-274 Front Matter....Pages 275-277 Introduction....Pages 279-284 Measuring Labor-Efficiency in Post Offices....Pages 285-309 On FDH Efficiency Analysis: Some Methodological Issues and Applications to Retail Banking, Courts and Urban Transit....Pages 311-342 Assessing and Explaining the Performance of Public Enterprises: Some Recent Evidence from the Productive Efficiency Viewpoint....Pages 343-372 Non-Frontier Measures of Efficiency, Progress and Regress for Time Series Data....Pages 373-394 Nonparametric Efficiency, Progress and Regress Measures For Panel Data: Methodological Aspects....Pages 395-429 Front Matter....Pages 275-277 Efficiency Dominance Analysis (EDA): Basic Methodology....Pages 431-442 Front Matter....Pages 443-444 Introduction....Pages 445-448 Commodity Tax Competition Between Member States of a Federation: Equilibrium and Efficiency....Pages 449-489 On Pareto Improving Commodity Tax Changes Under Fiscal Competition....Pages 491-506 Optimality Properties of Alternative Systems of Taxation of Foreign Capital Income....Pages 507-532 Tax Interaction Dynamics Among Belgian Municipalities 1984-1997....Pages 534-556 Back Matter....Pages 557-588 The 22 papers in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The volume presents contemporary analysis of Tulkens’ classic papers on public sector economics. 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.