Incentives, Organization, and Public Economics

TRAMA

This volume celebrates the career of Nobel Laureate Sir James Mirrlees. The contributions are all by leading authorities and range over Mirrlees' fields of interest: the economics of information, welfare, taxation, project appraisal, and industrial organization. The book will appeal to a wide audience of economists working in microeconomic theory.

NOTE EDITORE

This collection celebrates the career of Sir James Mirrlees, who received the 1996 Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on income taxation and its extension to information and incentive problems. His contributions have proved fundamental to the development of a wide range of areas in economics. The 17 papers contained in this volume focus on themes that are representative of Mirrlees' work, including the economics of information, welfare, taxation, project appraisal, and industrial organization. All the contributors have spent time working closely with Mirrlees - either as his co-author or his student - and all are recognized authorities in their fields. The significant new contributions that this collection offers will have wide-ranging appeal, and should prove particularly interesting to scholars working in the areas of microeconomics, microeconomic theory, mathematical economics, and welfare economics.

SOMMARIO

1 - Introduction 2 - Corporate Diversification and Agency 3 - Adverse Selection and Insurance with uberrima fides 4 - Strategic Experimentation: the Undiscounted Case 5 - Approximate Common Knowledge in a Search Model 6 - Wealth and Welfare 7 - Adjusting One's Standard of Living: Two-Period Models 8 - Who Should Provide Public Goods? 9 - An Optimal Earnings Schedule 10 - Non-linear Utility Pricing and Targeting the Poor 11 - A Reconsideration of the Optimal Income Tax 12 - Reassessing the Diamond-Mirrlees Efficiency Theorem 13 - Valuing Our Future: Cost-Benefit Analysis and Sustainability 14 - Chinese Reforms from a Comparative Perspective 15 - Capital Structure and Imperfect Competition in Product Markets 16 - Repeated Oligopoly Interaction 17 - Competing against Bundles 18 - On the Optimal Location of Capital

ALTRE INFORMAZIONI

• Condizione: Nuovo
• ISBN: 9780199242290
• Dimensioni: 242 x 25.0 x 162 mm Ø 680 gr
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Illustration Notes: line figures
• Pagine Arabe: 366