Public Enterprise Economics

Public Enterprise Economics
Author: Dieter Bös
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 480
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1483193233

Advanced Textbooks in Economics, Volume 23: Public Enterprise Economics: Theory and Application focuses on economics, mathematical economics, and econometrics, including microeconomics, marginal-cost pricing, taxes, and income effects. The manuscript takes a look at the essential parts of public sector pricing models, normative optimum theory, and normative piecemeal theory. Discussions focus on welfare improvements with non-tight constraints, welfare -improving increases of public inefficiency, conditions for optimal prices and quantities, compensating for income effects, and conditions for optimal quality. The book then ponders on marginal-cost pricing, Ramsey pricing, rate of return regulation, and pricing with distributional aims. Topics include comparing distributional and allocative pricing, prices versus taxes, optimum Ramsey policy, influence of Ramsey prices on allocation, distribution, and stabilization, and consequences for allocation, distribution, and stabilization. The publication examines bus and underground services in London, economic theory and empirical analysis, and different approaches towards optimal quality, including empirical studies on bus and underground demand, organizational and political history, and microeconomics of the representative consumer. The book is a valuable source of data for researchers interested in public enterprise economics.

Special Report

Special Report
Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Highway Research Board
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 1967
Genre: Highway engineering
ISBN:

Public Expenditure Decisions in the Urban Community

Public Expenditure Decisions in the Urban Community
Author: Howard G. Schaller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2016-03-17
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1317310985

In 1962, the Committee on Urban Economics held a conference on public expenditure decisions in order to promote analysis of the issues facing the public sector of the urban economy. Originally published in 1965, this report pulls together key papers presented at this conference discussing issues such as urban services, the patterns of public expenditure and the quality of government services in urban areas to draw conclusions on the difficulties of analysis and how economic tools could be utilised more effectively to solve these difficulties. This title will be of interest to students of environmental studies and economics.