Showing papers in "Journal of Public Economics in 1998"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether predatory behavior by corrupt politicians distorts the composition of government expenditure and found that such behavior reduces government spending on education in a cross-section of countries.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated a set of strategic decisions facing US firms and developed a simple theoretical framework in which firms choose whether or not to serve a foreign market, and if so whether by exporting, or by becoming a multinational.

TL;DR: This paper found that a higher degree of decentralization was associated with lower provincial economic growth over the past 15 years in China, which implies that fiscal reforms begun in China in the early 1980s have probably failed to promote the country's economic growth.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate a quantity-setting duopoly involving a private firm and a privatized firm jointly owned by the public and private sectors, and they find that neither full privatization nor full nationalization (the government holds all of the shares) is optimal under moderate conditions.

TL;DR: This paper showed that smaller countries have a larger share of public consumption in GDP and are also more open to trade, which may explain the observed positive empirical relationship between trade openness and government size.

TL;DR: The authors showed that donors have a taste for having their donations made public and that such a taste can affect the behavior of donors and charities. But they did not consider the effect of prestige on competition between charities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a political economy with two partisan parties and show that, if the saliency of the noneconomic issue increases, the tax rate proposed by the party representing the poor will fall -possibly even to zero -even though a majority of the population may have an ideal tax rate of unity.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe a theory of rational emulation and deviance, which assumes that individuals care about relative position (or ''status'), and constructs a model of decision-making in social and economic settings.

TL;DR: The authors derives the characteristics of endogenous environmental policy in a common agency model of politics, and proceeds to show that competition between lobby groups is an important source of internalization of economic externalities.

TL;DR: In this paper, the combined effect of Social Security and pension benefits on the probability of retirement in a cross-section of the population near retirement age was estimated using a unique dataset that links the economic and demographic information of households with the details of their pension formulas.

TL;DR: This article developed a model that augments the simple neoclassical framework by introducing relative income concerns into women's (or families') utility functions, which can help to explain why women's employment rose faster than can be accounted for by the simple Neoclassical model.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors formalized an equilibrium model in which altruism and decision-error parameters determine the distribution of contributions for linear and quadratic public goods games and showed that the equilibrium density is exponential for linear games.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine a survey of 6010 U.S. households and estimate a model for household portfolio allocation to capture the observed incompleteness of household portfolios, and examine the impact of taxes on portfolio composition, using detailed survey data to calculate precisely the marginal tax rate facing each household.

TL;DR: In this article, stated preference models are used to estimate the value that commuters are willing to pay to save travel time and find that this value is low and surprisingly insensitive to travel conditions and how toll revenues are used.

TL;DR: In this article, the interaction between redistributive politics at central and local levels in a federal system, and characterize the factors influencing success in redistributeive politics in both federal and unitary systems.

TL;DR: The authors studied the relationship between government grants and private donations to non-profits and determined whether government grants ''crowd-out'' private donations and found that private donations do not change with changes in government grants after controlling for firm heterogeneity and political and economic factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of rebate rules on voluntary contributions to a threshold public good were examined experimentally under three rebate policies: a no rebate policy, a proportional rebate policy and a utilization rebate policy.

TL;DR: In this article, tax prices have a large and statistically significant effect on the composition of payments, and tax prices discourage the payment of dividends, royalties, interest, and retained earnings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the marginal cost of public funds with distortionary taxation is analyzed in a model with heterogeneous consumers and a linear income tax, focusing on the tradeoff between labour market distortions and the redistribution from high-wage to low-wage workers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors put forward a theoretical analysis of the effect of federal tax increases on state taxes and found that when the federal government increases taxes, there is a significant positive response of state taxes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of a large-scale poor-area development program in rural China on household living standards and found that while the gains in growth were enough to prevent an absolute decline in average living standards, they were not enough to reverse the strong underlying divergent tendencies in the rural economy.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of income distribution on the level of burglary were studied in a model where risk-neutral agents have differing (legal) incomes which may be supplemented by burglary.

TL;DR: In this paper, the formation of preferences for social status as the result of intergenerational transmission of cultural traits was studied, and the authors characterized the behavior of parents with preferences for status in terms of socialization of their children to this particular cultural trait.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that there exists a time independent tax rule that guides polluting oligopolists to achieve the socially optimum production path, which is dependent on the current pollution stock, and it may be negative when the pollution stock is low.

TL;DR: In this article, the influence of habit formation and preference interdependence on labour supply behavior of married females was investigated, and it was shown that the labour supply curve is much flatter in a model with habit formation than without it, while the presence of young children becomes an insignificant factor in the hours equation while it remains a significant factor in participation decision.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the endogenous formation of jurisdictions, assuming the political process is a costly fight to acquire shares of the GNP pie, and they show that the stability of a unified jurisdiction is not necessarily determined by the preferences of the richest member region.

TL;DR: In this article, tax and expenditure policies in a federation with imperfectly mobile households are studied in a linear progressive tax and a vertical fiscal externality, reflecting the effect of state policies on federal revenues, provides an incentive for state taxes to be too progressive.

TL;DR: In this article, the trade-off between the relative size of regions and the distribution of tastes is considered in determining the optimum as well as the equilibrium design of jurisdictions, and the tradeoff between these two forces is modeled formally.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of environmental taxation within the context of an overlapping generations model are studied. But the authors focus on the impact of tax policy on the quality of the environment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of factor income taxation and of subsidies to human capital accumulation in models of endogenous growth are examined, in particular how these effects depend on the specification of the leisure activity and on the technology and tax treatment of the sector producing human capital.