Environmental and Public Economics Essays in honour of Wallace E. Oates

Contents

Part 1 Environmental economics: on environmental policy for a conservative era, William Baumol; economic federalism - welfare losses from uniform national drinking water standards, Terry M. Dinan et al; the case for a two-part instrument - presumptive tax and environmental subsidy, Don Fullerton, Ann Wolverton; tax-interactions, revenue-recycling, and the efficiency impacts of pollution-abatement policies, Lawrence H. Goulder; the positive political economy of instrument choice in environmental policy, Nathaniel O. Keohane et al; does nature limit environmental federalism, V. Kerry Smith et al. Part 2 Public economics: modelling urban growth controls, Jan K. Brueckner; congestion and taxation in Lumpy countries, David Hummels et al; the effects of educational vouchers when schools track by ability, Dennis Epple et al; on designing intergovernmental transfers with an application in the new South Africa, Robert P. Inman; public pensions in the EU - migration incentives and impacts, David E. Wildasin; the New Deal and the States - why wasn't the New Deal more centralized? John J. Wallis; capitalization and efficiency, John Yinger.

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