Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 1981"

TL;DR: In this article, closely related experiments testing the free rider hypothesis under different conditions, and sampling various sub-populations, are reported, and results question the empirical validity and generality of a strong version of the hypothesis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model with a tax on all corporate distributions to equity owners and no other taxes was analyzed and it was shown that the tax has no subtitution effect and no effect on the corporate choice between debt and equity (via retained earnings) finance.

TL;DR: In this article, tax evasion is incorporated into the analysis of optimum income taxation and a model of variable labour supply with tax evasion was used to derive supply functions for labour in'regular' and 'irregular' markets.

TL;DR: In this article, a spatial model of electoral competition with probabilistic voting and a very close relation between voters' preferences and their choice probabilities is presented, and the outcome of the electoral competition game is then shown to be precisely the social alternative that maximizes a Nash-type social welfare function.

TL;DR: In this paper, a unified approach for the analysis of clubs' local public goods and the transportation problems is proposed, where the emphasis is on the derivation of optimal allocation, pricing and the size of the sharing group.

TL;DR: The social cost of living index as mentioned in this paper is a group index based on the Bergson-Samuelson social welfare function, which is defined and examined under the assumption that the investigator constructing it expresses his distributional judgments in an explicit Bergson Samuelson Social Welfare Function (SDF).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the alternative perspective of an occupational choice framework, where risk taking involves the additional element of discrete choice between safe and risky activities, and develop rules for government intervention in the market equilibrium, and analyses the effects of taxation on risk taking.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the locations of voting and planning procedures in a general network and showed that a voting location exists and coincides with that minimizing the total distance covered by the users to go to the facility when the transportation network contains no cycles.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a fire protection measure based on a community's fire insurance rating to estimate the strength of congestion effects for fire protection services and showed that the congestion properties of fire protection are much like those of a pure public good.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider the possibility of Tiebout-type migration in the property value literature and show that the typical cross-section demand estimation procedures are not consistent with a model in which people vote with their feet as well as with ballots.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of mining taxation on the intertemporal extraction profile for a heterogeneous ore body is analyzed, where severance taxes (ad valorem or per unit; on metal or on ore), property taxes, and profits taxes (with depletion allowance).

TL;DR: In this article, a general equilibrium model of an economy with cities, farms and free migration of population is constructed, where cities produce internationally traded goods via production functions subject to economies of scale They also produce housing and a local public good.

TL;DR: In this article, the three tax principles are compared using a multiproduct custom union model and it is shown that if member countries use the destination or origin principles, no distortion or redistribution of income occurs, even if their tax rates differ.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a procedure for testing the signalling hypothesis as advanced by Spence et al. The approach used is to examine directly the question of whether employers use education for purely informational purposes in their hiring decisions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the competitive time path of prices is known, and if the profit function is concave, then there is an easily described time path for taxes and subsidies that would induce a monopolist to follow an efficient time path.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that for a given cost to the taxpayer, the effects of a transit subsidy depend on the subsidy formula, the objective function of the transit firm, and the transit demand function.

TL;DR: This paper analyzed the welfare effects of tax and expenditure limitations in an economy made up of many local governments and concluded that tax limitation may improve welfare in some cases, but not in others.

TL;DR: In this article, consumers' preferences over directions of tax reform are constructed from indirect utility functions and a Wicksellian decision procedure is used to define a dominance relation on the set of directions of change; direction x dominates direction y if and only if (a) everybody prefers x to y or (b) x is the status quo and at least one person prefers X to y.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the problems of gradual tax reform using the gradient projection algorithm, which leads to intuitively and economically appealing rules such as a tax reform analog of the classical optimal taxation result on production efficiency.

TL;DR: This article showed that the concepts of dynamic controllability are useful for the theory of economic policy by establishing four propositions: the ability to achieve a target state, even if it cannot be maintained, may be of economic interest.

TL;DR: In this paper, the question of when prices in a subset of markets should be set proportional to marginal costs even if other markets are distorted is examined, and conditions on preferences and demand functions are derived.

TL;DR: The selfishness hypothesis in voting behavior is formalized and tested in this paper, where individual net benefits from a bond proposal, computed using the median voter model, are used to explain voting behavior.

TL;DR: In this paper, a refinement of the Vickrey-Clarke-Groves decision, called autioning the leadership with differentiated buds, is proposed to achieve an anonymous and neutral outcome.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the effect of unemployment insurance on the riskiness of occupational choice by postulating a model of job search in which job offers have two characteristics; their wage and their security of tenure.

TL;DR: In this paper, a two region general equilibrium model is developed that allows for inter-regional capital mobility and explicit commodity price determination, where one of the two regions is incompletely specialized.

TL;DR: In this article, the desirability of imposing a set of sliding effluent charges was investigated in a stochastic multifirm model that explicitly includes not only emissions, but also a positively valued product and the amount of pollution removed from the effluent before it is emitted.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors develop a general equilibrium spatial model of a small urban area in which the current residents can control new residential development through a zoning policy determined by majority vote, where current residents are modeled explicitly as home owners, and are allowed to be arbitrarily different in tastes and endowments.