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Public Economics Programme Discussion Paper

Optimal Control of Externalities in the Presence of Income Taxation

Louis Kaplow

A substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusing particularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equal marginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preex...Read more...

May 2010

DARP Paper

Evaluation via Extended Orderings: Empirical Findings from West and East

Wulf Gaertner and Jochen Jungeilges

The theoretical background of the empirical investigations to be reported in this paper are positionalist aggregation functions which are numerically representable. More concretely, the broad Borda rule is proposed as an...Read more...

March 1999

CASEpaper

Fair Shares for All? The development of needs based governmental funding in education, health and housing

Ross Hendry

Furthering equity as an achievable public policy objective is based on the ability to assess needs accurately, and distribute resources accordingly. This paper plots the development of the formulae governing resouce allo...Read more...

November 1998