Litterature:
The literature consists of articles, notes, and extracts from the following books:
Myles, G. Public Economics Cambridge University Press. (Myles).
Atkinson, A.B. and J.E.Stiglitz Lectures on Public Economics McGraw Hill. (Atkinson and Stiglitz)
Jha, R. Modern Public Economics Routledge. (Jha)
Stiglitz, J.E. Economics of the Public Sector Norton. (Stiglitz, J.E.)
Welfare, justice and public choice:
Stiglitz, J.E pp. 156-182
Atkinson, A.B. and J.E.Stiglitz pp. 336-344, og 350-364
Tax distortions and production (in)efficiency:
Stiglitz, J.E. Taxation and economic efficiency 518-541.
Myles: Production efficiency 127-130
Atkinson, A.B. and J.E.Stiglitz: Production efficiency 470-474.
Optimal taxation:
Jha: Optimal linear taxes 312-315
Stiglitz, J.E. (1987) Pareto efficient and optimal taxation and the new new welfare economics. I: Auerbach, A.J. and M. Feldstein Handbook of Public Economics vol. 2 North-Holland, Amsterdam, 991-1042.
Edwards, J., M. Keen and M. Tuomala (1994) Income tax, commodity taxes and public good provision: A brief guide. Finanzarchiv 51, 472-487.
Røed, K. and S. Strøm Progressive taxes and the labour market – Is the trade-off between equality and efficiency inevitable? (Publisert artikkelversjon av memo)
Public goods, marginal cost of public funds:
Edwards, J., M. Keen and M. Tuomala (1994), pp: 472-487.
Jha: Public goods with distortionary taxation, 93-94.
Corporate taxation, taxation of shares, and the dual income tax:
A.Sandmo Investment, tax incentives and the criterion of neutrality. Discussion papers NHH 6/80
Peter Birch Sørensen Neutral taxation of shareholder income. A Norwegian tax reform proposal. Forthcoming in International Tax and Public Finance
Peter Birch Sørensen From the global income tax to the dual income tax. International Tax and Public Finance 1, 57-80.
The welfare state, public vs market solutions, public provision of private goods:
V. Christiansen Public provision of private goods Notes for Plenary lecture at the Congress of the International Institute for Public Finance, Helsinki 2002
A. Sandmo Public provision and private incentives Notes for Plenary lecture at the Congress of the International Institute for Public Finance, Helsinki 2002, NHH Discussion paper 18/2002
V. Christiansen and S. Blomquist Public Provision of Day Care in an Optimal Income Tax Model with Heterogeneous Preferences (Manuscript).
T. Besley and M. Gouveia Alternative systems of health care provision Economic Policy, no. 19 1994, 199-258.
Taxation, mobility and globalization:
The erosion of the welfare state in H.-W. Sinn, The New Systems Competition Blackwell 2003.
M. Keen Some international issues in commodity taxation Swedish Economic Policy Review 9 (2000) 9-39.
Miscellaneous:
During the term references may be made to other literature, especially offering contemporary discussion of topical issues, which may supplement the core literature and provide information on actual tax and other policy.