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Public Economics

The Macroeconomic Perspective

  • Burkhard Heer
Textbook

Part of the Springer Texts in Business and Economics book series (STBE)

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-xviii
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  2. Introduction
    Burkhard Heer
    Pages 1-6

  3. Useful Models

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 7-7
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    2. Ramsey Model
      Burkhard Heer
      Pages 9-61
    3. The Overlapping Generations Model
      Burkhard Heer
      Pages 63-98

  4. Fiscal Policy

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 99-99
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    2. Government Consumption
      Burkhard Heer
      Pages 101-177
    3. Income Taxation
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      Pages 179-241

  5. Social Security, Demographics, and Debt

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 243-243
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    2. Pensions
      Burkhard Heer
      Pages 245-320
    3. Public Debt
      Burkhard Heer
      Pages 321-377
  6. Back Matter
    Pages 379-388
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About this book

Introduction

Today, the most pressing challenges for public economics are of macroeconomic nature: pensions, debt, income distribution, and fiscal sustainability. All these problems are compounded by the phenomenon of demographic transition and aging. This graduate textbook addresses these issues with the help of state-of-the-art macroeconomic tools that are based on a sound microfoundation and rooted in empirical evidence. Different from the standard partial-equilibrium analysis in traditional textbooks on public economics, the concept of general equilibrium helps to account for compensating or amplifying side-effects of economic policy.

GAUSS and MATLAB computer code as well as teaching material (slides) are available as downloads from the author's homepage. 



Keywords

Public economics Public finance Financial crisis Government debt crisis Pension policies Public pension system Taxation Income taxation Ramsey model Overlapping generations model OLG models Government consumption Debt Demographic transition

Authors and affiliations

  • Burkhard Heer
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Business and EconomicsUniversity of AugsburgAugsburgGermany

Bibliographic information

  • DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00989-2
  • Copyright Information Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
  • Publisher Name Springer, Cham
  • eBook Packages Economics and Finance
  • Print ISBN 978-3-030-00987-8
  • Online ISBN 978-3-030-00989-2
  • Series Print ISSN 2192-4333
  • Series Online ISSN 2192-4341
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