TY - BOOK AU - Chander,Parkash AU - Drèze,Jacques AU - Lovell,C.Knox AU - Mintz,Jack ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Public goods, environmental externalities and fiscal competition SN - 9780387255347 U1 - 336 23 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston, MA PB - Springer US KW - ECONOMICS KW - FINANCE KW - ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS KW - ECONOMICS/MANAGEMENT SCIENCE KW - PUBLIC FINANCE & ECONOMICS N1 - Decentralized processes for public and private goods -- Environment, public goods, and externalities -- Efficiency analysis.-Fiscal competition and optimality N2 - The twenty-two papers collected in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens, an applied theorist, on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The collection is structured in four parts: I. Decentralized resource allocation processes for public and private goods II. Environment, public goods and externalities III. Efficiency analysis IV. Fiscal competition and optimality The four pictures above evoke a key concept, method or model used in each of these four parts: > MDP-type processes to determine feasible paths to efficiency and coalitional stability. > CLIMNEG World Simulation model to explore alternative environmental scenarios for the planet. > Free Disposal Hull efficiency analysis to drop convexity and help deal with outliers. > Non Cooperative Fiscal Equilbria to characterize the outcomes of fiscal competition UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b135529 ER -