Public finance and taxation

This book analyses conflict theory through one type of conflict in particular: manhunting, or predation.

Explains the political factors behind the failure of many developing country democracies to benefit from globalization.

American Supporters of free trade are on the defensive.

This book aims to explore if and how securitization changed financial intermediation and lending behaviour by reviewing the pre- and post-financial crisis theoretical and empirical literature.

There has been little analysis of the constitutional framework for management of the UK economy, either in constitutional law or regulatory studies.

How should policy analysts assess ''benefit validity'' when behavioral anomalies appear relevant?

This study explores the formation of the European Union's tax policy and asks why member states did not raise objections to it.

A systematic analysis of health workforce skill-mix innovations, implementation and outcomes for individuals, patients and health systems.

Local Government Economics progresses on from the author's earlier book, Public Sector Economics, addressing many of the same themes but at a more advanced level, and specifically within the context of local government.

Restoring Public Debt Sustainability: The Role of Independent Fiscal Institutions represents the first comprehensive survey of a new generation of independent fiscal institutions, established to promote transparency in public finances through real-time monitoring of the soundness of budgetary policymaking.

The only single-source guide to understanding, using, adapting, and designing state-of-the-art agent-based modelling of tax evasion A computational method for simulating the behavior of individuals or groups and their effects on an entire system, agent-based modeling has proven itself to be a powerful new tool for detecting tax fraud.

By taking the long view on the evolution of this country's tax policies through the past few decades, Henrekson and Stenkula explain how Sweden developed the highest tax-to-GDP ratio in the world, until the beginning of the 2000s.

Dieses Buch stellt detailliert die alle sieben Jahre stattfindenden Verhandlungen über das Budget der Europäischen Union vor und erörtert die zentralen Elemente des europäischen Haushaltssystems.

Actualmente existe una amplia gama de beneficios dirigidos a los contribuyentes de impuestos cuya finalidad es el cumplimiento de las obligaciones fiscales.

For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more.

This book discusses the role of public-private partnerships (PPPs) in global transportation infrastructure.

Today's financial crisis is the result of dismal failures on the part of regulators, market analysts, and corporate executives.

Income from capital receives uneven treatment in both the tax system and the loan markets.

Why do fewer teenagers in England from disadvantaged backgrounds go to university than young people from better-off families?

Canadians can never not argue about taxes.

This book gathers selected papers from the 29th Eurasia Business and Economics Society (EBES) Conference, held in Lisbon, Portugal.

Public sector organizations are about to enter one of the most challenging environments they have ever had to face as they bear much of the cost of the credit crunch.

This book presents in detail the negotiations on the budget of the European Union, which take place every seven years, and discusses the central elements of this European budgetary system.

A comprehensive, in-depth, and authoritative guide to China's financial system The Chinese economy is one of the most important in the world, and its success is driven in large part by its financial system.

John Levy's text presents microeconomic theory for use in analyzing and formulating public policy.

This book examines the major economic challenges associated with the sustainability of public pensions, specifically demographic change, labor-market relations, and risk sharing.

This book focuses on the Defined Benefit (DB) pension scheme for pensionable civil servants in Malaysia, as a result of the rapidly rising pattern of pension costs for public servants in the country.

Today's most all-inclusive reference of technical indicators----what they are and how to use them to add value to any trading programTechnical analysis has become an incredibly popular investors' tool for gauging market strength and forecasting short-term direction for both markets and individual stocks.

Issues related to central banks feature regularly in economic news coverage, and in times of economic or financial crisis, especially when a commercial bank is bailed out, they become the focus of the policy debate.

This book discusses Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) and their potential to protect and maintain critical infrastructure in a variety of global governmental settings.

How much does the Soviet Union spend on defense, economic development, social welfare, and education?