Public Goods, Environmental Externalities and Fiscal Competition: Selected Papers on Competition, Efficiency, and Cooperation in Public Economics by Henry Tulkens

The 22 papers in this volume illustrate the itinerary of Henry Tulkens on the occasion of his retirement from teaching. The volume presents contemporary analysis of Tulkens’ classic papers on public sector economics. 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 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