Link to My Classroom Lectures on Public Finance

Links to some of my papers on public finance

  • Do Government Subsidies Affect the Private Supply of Public Goods?, with Jim Andreoni, Public Choice, 1996 (preprint in postscript formpdf file
  • The Political Economy of Publicly Supplied Day Care  with Soren Blomquist, European Journal of Political Economy, 1996 (preprint in postscript form)
  • Comment on "The Welfare Loss from Price Distortions "  in  Economics With No Special Technology, by Trout Rader 1996
  • Some Simple Analytics of Peak-Load Pricing with Jeff Mackie-Mason, Rand Journal of Economics, 1991 (pdf file from JSTOR)
  • Economics of Crime and Confiscation   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 1990
  • A Test for Efficient Provision of Public Schooling with Judy Roberts, Dan Rubinfeld, and Perry Shapiro, Journal of Public Economics, 1988 (pdf file)
  • On the Private Provision of Public Goods Journal of Public Economics (1986) with Larry Blume and Hal Varian (pdf file)
  • Counting Groves-Ledyard Equilibria via Degree Theory, with Carl Simon and Charles Titus, Journal of Mathematical Economics, 1983 (pdf file)
  • Independence of Allocative Efficiency from Distribution in the Theory of Public Goods Econometrica, 1983
  • Micro-Based Estimates of Demand Functions for Local School Expenditures  Econometrica,  1982, with Dan  Rubinfeld and Perry Shapiro
  • On Capturing Oil Rents with a National Excise Tax   American Economic Review, 1982
  • Gorman and Musgrave are Duals--An Antipodean Theorem on Public Goods   ,with Richard Cornes Economic Letters, 1981
  • Efficiency Inducing Taxation of a Monopolistically Supplied Natural Resource, with John Cross and Richard Porter Journal of Public Economics, 1980 (pdf file)
  • Do Governments Spend Too Much?  National Tax Journal, 1979
  • Collective Choice and the Lindahl Allocation Method in Economics of Externalities, edited by S.Y. Lin, 1977 (pdf file)
  • The Core when Strategies are Restricted by Law  Review of Economic Studies, 1975
  • On Efficient Provision of Social Overhead Goods, Yearbook for East European Studies, 1973
  • Private Demands for Public Goods  American Economic Review,  1973
  • A Note on Efficient Taxation  Journal of Political Economy, 1973
  •  Unpublished Papers

      Some Abstracts