Principles of project and infrastructure

Current books on project finance tend to be non-technical and are either procedural or rely heavily on case studies. In contrast this textbook provides a more analytical perspective, without a loss of pragmatism. Principles of Project Finance and Infrastructure is written for senior undergraduates, graduate ...

The other invisible hand

delivering public services through choice and competition

How can we ensure high-quality public services such as health care and education? Governments spend huge amounts of public money on public services such as health, education, and social care, and yet the services that are actually delivered are often low quality, inefficiently run, unresponsive ...

Endogenous public policy and contests

This book studies endogenous policy determination focusing on the role of interest groups and their lobbying efforts in the determination of public policy. Applying strategic contest theory as the basic methodology, it clarifies the fundamental parameters that determine the behavior of the government and the ...

Costs and benefits of collective pension systems

The Dutch pension system is often praised as one of the best in the world: it is efficient, it provides certainty to participants and it preserves cohesion and solidarity among workers and pensioners. This book presents these benefits in detail, supported by quantitative evidence. It ...

Modernización y Estado de Bienestar en España

El Estado de Bienestar es el resultado del proceso de modernización llevado a cabo en Europa desde finales del siglo XIX, hasta conformar un conjunto de instituciones, derechos y garantías que interactúan con los sistemas político, económico, jurídico y de valores. Es mucho más que ...

Public sector auditing

is it value form money?

Drawing on 20 years of experience as Comptroller and Auditor General, and head of the United Kingdom National Audit Office, "Public Sector Auditing: Is it Value for Money?" is Sir John Bourn's own account of the role and influence value for money auditing has ...

The Elgar Companion to public economics

empirical public economics

Attiat Ott and Richard Cebula have recognised the need to present, in an accessible and straightforward way, the voluminous literature in the public economics arena. Advances in econometric techniques and the spillover of knowledge from other disciplines made it difficult, not only for students but ...

Public finance

Shoup (political economy, Columbia U.) takes a comprehensive and global approach to the issue of how people pay for their governments' services, while also considering the goals, effects, and criteria of the public finance methods they use. Graced with a new introduction by Steven Medema.

Public management

old and new

Offering much more than a purely theoretical or retrospective view of public management, this exciting book is an invaluable new addition to the field of public management. Putting the American model in perspective for academics around the world, this book establishes the historical, theoretical, analytical ...

Solutions manual to accompany intermediate public economics

This is the solutions manual for all exercises in "Intermediate Public Economics", allowing students to use the analytical tools of public economics at several levels. This solutions manual for "Intermediate Public Economics" (MIT Press, 2006) offers students an opportunity to practice using the analytical tools ...

Tramitación de subvenciones públicas

conforme a la Ley General de Subvenciones

Las subvenciones públicas son una fuente más de financiación para la realización de los proyectos que desarrollan las fundaciones. Esta monografía es una guía práctica en la que se ofrece un análisis detallado de todo el proceso de tramitación que ha de conocerse antes de ...

Metodología de modelizacióon de procedimientos administrativos

Elaborado por el Ministerio de Administraciones Públicas.

La evaluación de las políticas públicas

Los perfiles del presupuesto

(Revista Cuadernos de Información Económica, Nº195, año 2006)

El presupuesto de defensa en España

1946-2006

Modelling tax revenue growth

This book demonstrates how the reliable measurement of growth in tax revenues, both for a tax system and for its component taxes, is important for the design of tax policy. The need for discretionary changes in tax parameters (such as tax rates, income thresholds and ...

The political economy of fiscal policy

public deficits, volatility, and growth

One of the most striking macroeconomic developments during the last three decades is the rise and persistence of large fiscal deficits in a number of countries. Despite recent major fiscal reforms around the world, many countries suffer from recurrent large fiscal imbalances that often reflect ...

Monetary and fiscal policies in the Euro Area

This book studies the interactions between monetary and fiscal policies in the euro area. It carefully discusses the process of policy competition and the structure of policy cooperation. As to policy competition, the focus is on competition between the European central bank, the American central ...

The challenges of tax reform in a global economy

Table of Contents: Ch. 1 Thinking about tax reform in the emerging global economy by James Alm and Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Mark Rider Ch. 2 Taxation and income distribution : myth and realities by Arnold C. Harberger Ch. 3 Trade-offs between targeting and simplicity : lessons from ...

Hamilton's Paradox

the promise and peril of fiscal federalism

As new federations take shape and old ones are revived around the world, a difficult challenge is to create incentives for fiscal discipline. A key question is whether a politically-motivated central government can credibly commit not to bail out subnational governments in times of crisis ...