Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 1986"

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a general model of non-cooperative provision of a public good and show that there is always a unique Nash equilibrium in the model and characterize the properties and the comparative statics of the equilibrium.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors seek to determine the factors influencing charitable contributions to private nonprofit organizations by estimating a demand function for the output of these collective-good providers, and test the hypothesis that voluntary giving is responsive to conventional market variables such as advertising expenditures, price, and quality.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe regional market equilibria, where consumers of each region allocate their purchases of private goods between domestic and non-domestic ones according to the structure of relative prices, taxes, and transportation costs.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a model of corruption deterrence with a simple overlapping-generations structure built into it, where the assumption is that when corruption becomes more prevalent in the economy it is harder to audit a corrupt official effectively.

TL;DR: In this paper, the relative efficiency of privately-owned and publicly-owned electric utilities is investigated using theoretical and econometric models that allow for the effects of both ownership type and regulation.

TL;DR: In this article, public unemployment insurance is analyzed as the majority voting equilibrium policy of a dynamic stochastic economy and the effects of differences in the average frequency or duration of unemployment on equilibrium taxes and benefits are investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of housing demand that explicitly includes the decision of individuals to form independent households is proposed and evaluated to evaluate the effects of a housing voucher program on the propensity of young and elderly persons to live independently.

TL;DR: In this article, a general optimal tax formula is derived, and special cases of is discussed, and a special case of differential commodity taxation is discussed for the case of moral hazard and more than one commodity.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple overlapping generations model is modified to allow for an externality experienced by the young from consumption by the elderly, which sets up a game between generations in which one generation's strategy may be to save too little and rely on gifts from the young (e.g. public assistance) for retirement income.

TL;DR: In this article, a model of the application process, which is modeled as choice under uncertainty about approval of an application for disability insurance, is presented. But the model is not suitable for the case of individuals with physical or mental impairments.

TL;DR: For a finite population with quasilinear preferences, it was shown how Mirrlees' optimal nonlinear income tax problem can be simplified to a reduced-form problem involving only the allocation of the consumption good.

TL;DR: This article found that free-rider behaviour is random with respect to observable socio-demographic characteristics and that the effect of free-riders' behavior on public support of arts is significant.

TL;DR: In this paper, the pivotal mechanism is shown to be strategyproof (demand revealing) in public decision problems where preferences are quasi-linear and no agent has an incentive to free-ride by withdrawing from the committee and consuming whatever decision is taken by the remaining agents.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that, in a general equilibrium model with one private good, one public good, labour and an income tax, certain widely-assumed properties of the Laffer curve do not necessarily hold.

TL;DR: In this paper, a theory of tax reform that is applicable to a many-good economy where the initial tax structure is arbitrarily given, no lump-sum tax exists, and the tax revenue must be maintained after the reform.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors found that unemployment insurance significantly increases the duration of unemployment and that part of this effect is due to a decrease in the offer arrival rate as well as a higher reservation wage.

TL;DR: In this paper, a taxonomy of relationships between a public bureau and its sponsoring institution is modelled within a simple follower-leader framework and various assumptions are made with respect to who makes the decision about the bureaucratic activity level.

TL;DR: An ethical objection is raised against the Blackorby-Donaldson criterion of optimum population maximizing the sum total of utilities in excess of some critical level, since it may disprefer a social state with more people and with more worthwhile lives.

TL;DR: In this article, the dual relationship between the prices of private goods and the quantities of public goods is considered and the conditions for optimum public good provision can be expressed as a modification of the Samuelson conditions with extra terms representing (a) the distortionary effect of taxes on the willingness to pay for the public good, and (b) distributional effects.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the Mirrlees-Seade conditions of agent monotonicity and noninferiority of leisure imply the positivity of the optimal marginal income tax rate in Sheshinski's model of linear income taxation.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a two-country intertemporal equilibrium model in which imperfectly elastic investment captures the notion of imperfectly mobile physical capital and found that if home goods and foreign goods are perfect substitutes and investment is inelastic, the tax effects in open and closed economies are similar.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors characterize when a debt limit is optimal and examine the role of special districts, which typically neither are subject to a debt ceiling nor fully backed by the jurisdiction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the sensitivity of "optimal" commodity tax rates to alternative demand systems is investigated, on a nine commodity disaggregation of Indian budget data (NSS, 28th round).

TL;DR: The authors showed that Akerlof and Dickens' conjecture was correct and that cognitive dissonance may lead people to underestimate the expected utility of committing crimes when opportunities present themselves, and that if punishment is severe, rationalization may not be necessary and people may be more likely to commit crime when opportunities arise.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a technique to calculate the long-run benefits of an improvement based on the responsiveness of population densities to the non-marginal improvement, which is not related to hedonic prices.

TL;DR: The authors analyzes the question of how differences in family size should be treated by the income tax system in order to achieve horizontal equity, defined as "equal treatment of equals" for households of different sizes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider three different ways of incorporating individuals' educational choices into the design of optimal income tax policy and show that the qualitative features of the optimal tax schedule are not similar to those of the standard optimal tax model and support neither the traditional views on the egalitarian nature of equal education nor its disadvantageous consequences in the perfect utilitarian society.

TL;DR: In this paper, an applied general equilibrium regional model for Canada is used to investigate the regional effects of taxes, and it is shown that richer regions tend to lose and poorer regions gain from federal taxes, but other regional characteristics such as manufacturing/nonmanufacturing, or resource/non-resource can be important.

TL;DR: In this paper, the notion of inequality-equivalence of tax functions is introduced and some desirable distributional properties are examined and some of their implications are derived for different inequality concepts entering the analysis.