Advances in public economics

InhaltsverzeichnisI Introduction and overview.Contemporary public economics.II Economics of public programs.The changing economic status of U. S. disabled men: Trends and their determinants, 1982-1991.The role of labour demand elasticities in tax incidence analysis with heterogeneous labour..III Tax leakages and efficiency.Modelling the hidden economy and the tax-gap in New Zealand.Tax efficiency in selected Indian states.IV Do governments act in the interest of their constituents?.Tax reforms and the growth of government.Empirics of the median voter hypothesis in Japan.v Optimality of the public capital stock.Estimates of optimal public capital stocks in Japan using a public investment discount rate framework.On the long run effect of public capital on aggregate output: Estimation and sensitivity analysis.