Public Finance

This open access book focuses on the ‘downstream’ element of PFM, that is how public organisations utilise public resources. It argues that improvements in PFM/IC will only flow from a recognition that what really matters is the quality of management...

Was the European Union ever a liberal dream? How did the common market impact the liberalization in its member states? Has, on balance, the European Union fostered more or less economic freedom in the Old Continent? This book explores the intellectual...

This book examines budgeting by analyzing the local government budget as a complex system, thus adding a new dimension to traditional budget textbooks. It is designed to complement existing texts—not replace—by putting the budget in a complex system,...

Public value theory speaks to the co-creation of value between politicians, citizens, and public managers, with a focus on the public manager in terms of her contributions, initiatives, and limitations in value creation. But just who are public managers?...

This book is a comprehensive, scholarly account of Hong Kong Public Budgeting, spanning from the pre-1997 British rule to the post-1997 Chinese rule. Transcending the existing comparative budgeting studies which are either central-government focused or...

In light of demographic change and the growing problems of traditional old-age security systems, this book discusses two essential instruments in connection with privately providing for old-age security: (1) savings in private pension schemes and (2)...

The book presents arguments against the taxpayers'-funded bailing out of failed financial institutions, and puts forward suggestions to circumvent the TBTF problem, including some preventive measures. It ultimately argues that a failing financial...

This book introduces the theory and practice of Chinese public budget reform, including the manner and implications of public budget reform, the role and status of central government and local governments in budget reform, as well as the latest...

The book presents the economic policy model known as "Social Market Economy" in Germany, the country where it originated. Although the model has since been adopted as core objective in the EU Treaty of Lisbon, experts still disagree on its...

In recent years, the European Commission has attached increasing importance to the use of financial engineering instruments rather than traditional grant-based financing for the microcredit sector, considering these to be the most efficient option...

This book takes as a starting point that welfare states in developed societies do not provide systems of social insurance against the risk of an early death. In contrast to the way in which economically developed countries provide ways of insuring...

Growing populations and economies have increased the public's awareness that the world's environmental resources are finite. The issues of global warming and the depletion of the ozone layer have given universal significance to what were once local and...

This book elucidates the murky realities of China's taxation system today, and advocates bold plans for change. Theorizing finance and taxation in relation to a national political system, the authors explain the current tangled-up realities of China's...

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Thisbookisacollectionofeightpapersthatwerepublished in aspecial symposium issueofEmpirical Economicsdur- ing 1999. These papers cover several areasofinterest in contemporary public economics, including tax incidence, underground economy, welfare system,...

This book examines the objectives of public debt management and the re-emerging issue of separating monetary policy formulation from fiscal and debt management. The recent Great Recession has resulted in a rethink of the objectives and working of...

This book is Karl Widerquist’s first statement of the “indepentarian” theory of property, called, “Justice as the Pursuit of Accord” (JPA). It argues the natural-rights-based arguments for unequal private property have failed to establish that...

The purpose of this book is to fill the lack of micro evidences on a structural change of African producers. By collecting studies on single industries, we attempt to demonstrate firms' and farmers' responses to the recent economic trend such as growth...

This book focuses on development of blockchain-based new-generation financial infrastructures, in which a systematic, complete theoretical framework is proposed to explore blockchain-based securities trading platform, central securities depository (CSD),...

The author had already become involved with the subject of this book when President Nixon suspended the convertibility of the dollar on August 15, 1971. This declaration was equivalent to an official admission of the previously evident failure of the...

This book first shows that the past 40 years of China's economic reform and opening up represents the greatest magnitude of economic growth in history. Based on field trips, extensive and intensive interviews and literature surveys, this book argues that...

This book provides innovative solutions to fundamental problems in finance, such as the valuation of bond and equity, the pricing of debt, equity and total asset, the determination of optimal capital structure, etc., which are unsolved or poor-solved so...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789811370380Author Moriki HosoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 156g

This book mainly addresses the general equilibrium asset pricing method in two aspects: option pricing and variance risk premium. First, volatility smile and smirk is the famous puzzle in option pricing. Different from no arbitrage method, this book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356148772Author Dr AmbedkarFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Lector House LLPPublisher Lector House LLP

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264826304Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 57Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264853270Author OecdFormat PaperbackPage Count 58Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)Publisher Organization for Economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264493346Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264563094Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 57Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789065440150Author Martin NorrFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Kluwer Law InternationalPublisher Kluwer Law InternationalWeight(grams) 500g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264810228Author OecdFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)Publisher Organization for Economic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264377295Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 85Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

A ruling party decides each of two periods on the level of public goods which it finances by means of taxation and internal debt. The debt has to be honoured by the government of the second period. Between the two periods elections take place, which may...

This book studies the sustainability and optimality of public debt under different scenarios: the closed economy, the small open economy, and a two-country setting. Sustainability refers to the existence and the stability of the long-run equilibrium...

While liberal democracies are the best systems of self-governance for societies, they rarely invoke great enthusiasm. On the one hand, democracies have been known to fail in achieving efficient or fair allocations. On the other hand, many citizens take...

Highly esteemed author Topics covered are relevant and timelyBook InformationISBN 9783540434313Author Paul MalliavinFormat HardbackPage Count 142Imprint Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KPublisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg...

The rising role of intra- and intergenerational transfers (e.g. basic income, child benefit and public pensions) characterises modern economies, yet most models depicting these transfers are too sophisticated for a wider but mathematically trained...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264593961Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 57Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789264872608Author Organisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentFormat PaperbackPage Count 63Imprint Organization for Economic Co-operation and...

We often think of fiscal decisions as being made by a single government, but in the United States the reality is that an astounding number of entities have the power to tax and spend. State, local, and federal governments all play crucial roles in the U...