This paper posits an information channel as the explanation for sudden inflations. Consumers saving via nominal government bonds face a choice whether to acquire costly information about future government surpluses. They trade off the cost of acquiring information about the surpluses that back...

With the outbreak of the COVID pandemic, many governments around the world face serious fiscal difficulties. The deteriorating fiscal condition is a critical concern, as it suggests that governments will have limited resources to address important issues of our time. Greater fiscal transparency...

The Journal of Public Economics (JPE) is a reputable journal in the domain of economics that was inaugurated in 1972. We conduct a 50-year retrospective review to analyze the journal's development and impact in terms of publications, authors, affiliated institutions and countries, and citation...

In this paper, we discuss how to get good papers done in Economics, Business, and others and get them published in good journals. We first discuss how to get good theoretical papers done in Economics and Business, including the cost of capital, investors' behavioral models by using the cost of...

In a paper delivered at the December 1955 meeting of the Econometric Society, Paul Samuelson noted that though economists had done "work of high quality and great quantity in the field of taxation," the theory of public expenditure had been "relatively neglected" (1958, 332). Anglo-American...

The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight...

The COVID-19 crisis poses new policy challenges and has spurred new research agendas in public economics. In this article, we selectively reflect on how the field of public economics has been shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss several areas where more research is necessary. We highlight...