نقد و تحلیل کتاب « Public Finance and Public Policy»

Policy Implications of Dynamic Public Finance

The dynamic public finance literature underwent significant changes over the past decade. This research agenda has now reached a stage at which it is able to analyze the design of social insurance programs and optimal taxation in rich environments that can be closely matched to microeconomic data. We provide an overview of the recent advances in this literature, discuss the key trade-offs, and ...

Public Finance

Public Finance Harvey Rosen Chapter One: Introduction 1. This book is about the taxing and spending activity of government, a subject usually called public finance. This term is something of a misnomer, because the fundamental issues are not financial (that is, relating to money). Rather, the key problems relate to the use real resources. P4 2. Our focus is on the microeconomic functions of gov...

Separability and public finance

In a second best environment, the optimal policy choice sometimes follows first best rules, as described in a number of scattered works. This paper presents a formal general argument which allows to unify much of the literature. It lays down the information structure and separability assumptions under which the results hold in a variety of setups, with extensions to preference heterogeneity and...

Jonathan Gruber Massachusetts Institute of Technology Worth Publishers Public Finance and Public Policy THIRD EDITION

Julis-rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance Consumption and Finance

Recent financial woes in America have prompted a closer look at the relationship between the health of an economy and the decisions of its households. The Great Recession, in particular, was driven partly by mounting household debt and plummeting household spending. Now, while the rebounding savings rate has reversed a longstanding trend, it has weakened the economic recovery. In “Consumption a...

Finance and Public-Private Partnerships

A PPP bundles investment and service provision of infrastructure into a single long-term contract. A group of private investors finances and manages the construction of the project, then maintains and operates the facilities for a long period of usually 20 to 30 years, and at the end of the contract transfers the assets to the government. During the operation of the project, the private partner...