Public Economics The Macroeconomic Perspective /

• Main Author: Heer, Burkhard (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Springer Texts in Business and Economics,
• Subjects: Public finance.; Finance, Public.; Macroeconomics.; Game theory.; Economic theory.; Financial crises.; Public Economics.; Public Finance.; Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics.; Game Theory, Economics, Social and Behav. Sciences.; Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods.; Financial Crises.

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 o...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Part I: Useful Models: Ramsey Model
• The Overlapping Generations Model
• Part II: Fiscal Policy: Goverment Consumption- Income Taxation
• Part III: Social Security, Demographics, and Debt: Pensions
• Public Debt
• Name Index. Subject Index.