This paper reviews potential advantages and disadvantages of capital tax competition. Tax
competition may introduce, mitigate, or exacerbate inefficiencies in both the private sector …

Q You use the term" Pangiossian" in your current book to describe some trade economists
who believe there is little impact on wages in America from international trade and …

English summary: Lars P. Feld evaluates the economic arguments for or against tax
competition in a federal polity and summarizes the empirical evidence concerned with the …

This paper proposes a new definition and conceptual framework for Social Protection
grounded in Social Risk Management. The concept repositions the traditional areas of …

Popular support for the welfare state varies greatly across nations and policy domains. We
argue that these variations—vital to understanding the politics of the welfare state—reflect in …

This paper discusses in a systematic and comprehensive way the existing literature on the
relationship between the growth of countries' economies and various public finance …

Why are unemployment benefits more generous in some countries? This article argues that
citizens trade off the redistributive and insuring effect of social insurance. As a result, the …

" Political theorists are aware that the old-fashioned model of state power, according to
which elected officials make policy decisions, which are then faithfully enacted by a loyal …

In recent years the welfare state has come under attack from economists, and in many
OECD countries there have been calls for spending on the welfare state to be rolled back …

If governments stepped in where markets failed, reintroducing markets through the backdoor
of systems competition will again result in market failure. Three models are presented which …