Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 1973"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the smuggling and trade policy in an open economy and discuss the extension of Bhagwati-Hansen analysis to a number of other issues traditionally considered in the theory of international trade policy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss some aspects of tax administration so that the administrative efficiency may be improved and tax evasion may be reduced and discuss the factors which determine the extent of tax evasion such as the probability of detection, penalty rates and the allocation of resources to maximize tax returns.

TL;DR: In economics, good news still does not always travel fast amongst economists as mentioned in this paper, especially if the good news appears first in a journal for highway engineers; and delay is yet more likely, as far as English-speaking economists are concerned, if the engineering journal happens to be the Annales des Ponts et Chaussees.

TL;DR: Lesourne's "Le calcul economique" as discussed by the authors is a handbook of computational economics, in fact the most complete and rigorous presentation published on the subject to date, containing a clear and general approach to cost-benefit analysis and its links with optimal allocation of time (a theory proposed by Lesourne before Becker, 1965), the introduction of the State in a general equilibrium approach, and time, uncertainty and transaction costs in Pareto-optimal as well as in suboptimal situations.