A solutions manual for all 582 exercises in the second edition of Intermediate Public Economics.

A solutions manual for all 582 exercises in the second edition of Intermediate Public Economics.

About the Author

Nigar Hashimzade is Lecturer in Economics at the University of Exeter.

Jean Hindriks is Professor in the Economics Department and Codirector of the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) at the Université Catholique de Louvain.

Gareth D. Myles is Head of Department and Professor of Economics at the University of Exeter and a Research Fellow at the Institute for Fiscal Studies. He is the author of Public Economics.

I Public Economics and the Public Sector 1 An Introduction to Public Economics 3 2 Equilibrium and Efficiency 17 3 Behavioral Economics 53 II Government 4 Public Sector Statistics 69 5 Theories of the Public Sector 81 III Departures from Efficiency 6 Public Goods 107 7 Club Goods and Local Public Goods 133 8 Externalities 155 9 Imperfect Competition 183 10 Asymmetric Information 219 IV Political Economy 11 Voting 247 12 Rent-Seeking 265 V Equity and Distribution 13 Optimality and Comparability 285 14 Inequality and Poverty 311 VI Taxation 15 Commodity Taxation 345 16 Income Taxation 373 17 Tax Evasion 411 18 The Limits to Redistribution 433 VII Multiple Jurisdictions 19 Fiscal Federalism 447 20 Fiscal Competition 477 21 Issues in International Taxation 499 VIII Issues of Time 22 Intertemporal Efficiency 523 23 Social Security 537 24 Economic Growth 561 IX Applications 25 Cost-Benefit Analysis 595 26 Economics of Climate Policy 609