1. Editorial Note

   • Jack Mintz
   • Assaf Razin

   Editorial Introduction Pages: 381 - 381

2. Introduction: Public Finance and Transitions in Social Security

   • Axel Börsch-Supan
   • Wolfram F. Richter

   OriginalPaper Pages: 383 - 387

3. Why a Funded Pension System is Needed and Why It is Not Needed

   • Hans-Werner Sinn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 389 - 410

4. Generational Accounts for The Netherlands: An Update

   • A. Lans Bovenberg
   • Harry ter Rele

   OriginalPaper Pages: 411 - 430

5. A Comment on the Place of Funded Pensions in Transition Economies

   • Georges de Menil

   OriginalPaper Pages: 431 - 444

6. Health Care Reform: Separating Insurance from Income Redistribution

   • Friedrich Breyer
   • Andreas Haufler

   OriginalPaper Pages: 445 - 461

7. Mixed Tax Systems and the Public Provision of Private Goods

   • Alessandro Balestrino

   OriginalPaper Pages: 463 - 478

8. Optimal Redistribution with Unobservable Preferences for an Observable Merit Good

   • Maria del Mar Racionero

   OriginalPaper Pages: 479 - 501

9. Competition and Efficiency in Health Care: An Analysis of the Italian Case

   • Roberto Cellini
   • Giacomo Pignataro
   • Ilde Rizzo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 503 - 519

10. The Impact of Taxing Unemployment Insurance Benefits on Unemployment Duration and Post-unemployment Earnings

    • Chul-In Lee

    OriginalPaper Pages: 521 - 546

11. Why Invest in Your Neighbor? Social Contract on Educational Investment

    • Panu Poutvaara
    • Vesa Kanniainen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 547 - 562

12. Household Production and the Design of the Tax Structure

    • Dan Anderberg
    • Alessandro Balestrino

    OriginalPaper Pages: 563 - 584

13. Environmental Product Standards, International Trade and Monopolistic Competition

    • Alexander Haupt

    OriginalPaper Pages: 585 - 608