This chapter first discusses what economists mean by “the incidence of agricultural policy”
and why we care about it. Then it reviews models of the determinants of the differential …

This paper reviews experience with the use of computable or applied general equilibrium
(CGE or AGE) models to affect public policy. The range of issues on which CGE models …

Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models play an important role in supporting public-
policy making on such issues as trade, climate change and taxation. This significantly …

We model farmers as facing small fixed costs of purchasing fertilizer and assume some are
stochastically present biased and not fully sophisticated about this bias. Such farmers may …

In the most important health insurance study ever conducted researchers at the RAND
Corporation devised all experiment to address two key questions in health care financing …

This paper derives optimal income tax formulas using compensated and uncompensated
elasticities of earnings with respect to tax rates. A simple formula for the high income optimal …

There has been considerable debate as to whether the revenue-neutral substitution of
environmental taxes for ordinary income taxes might offer a double dividend: not only (1) …

In the face of growing concerns about serious environmental problems, environmental taxes
have attracted increasing attention. Many economists have argued that pollution levies are …

Most economies feature levels of public spending that require more tax revenues than would
be generated solely from the pollution taxes set according to the Pigovian principle, that is …

THIS PAPER CONCERNS the theory and practice of taxation in poor countries. We should
ask at the outset whether the analyses of taxation for developed and less-developed …