The purpose of this paper is to test econometrically the existence of fiscal interactions between Belgian municipalities. At the time of writing, the motivation was to provide scientific support to the lively debate on fiscal competition that took place among Belgian politicians in the late...

Foreign source capital income taxes are examined from the point of view of of optimal taxation. In the framework of a simple economy with international real capital flows, a taxonomy of alternative systems of such taxation is first presented, showing how crediting and other tax parameters induce...

International agreements on transfrontier pollution issues require ap- proval by domestic political institutions. In this paper we employ a voting game theoretic model to characterize the stability of such agreements when each country’s participation is conditioned upon a domestic ratification...

Technological choices are multi-dimensional and thus one needs a multidimensional methodology to identify best available techniques. Moreover, in the presence of environmental externalities generated by productive activities, ?best? available techniques should be best from Society's point of...

A discrete time "resource allocation process" bearing on international negotiations relating to SO? transfrontier pollution between Finland, Russia and Estonia is formulated here as a sequence of solutions to successive non linear programs. A novel assumption concerning local information on...

Human induced climate change is a global concern but climate impacts and possibilities for greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions reductions exhibit strong regional contracts. This paper presents a modified version of the economic-climatic RICE model that computes regional temperature changes and...

This purely methodological paper deals with the role of time in non-parametric efficiency analysis. Using both FDH and DEA technologies, it first shows how each observation in a panel can be characterized in efficiency terms vis-a-vis three different kinds of frontiers: (i) "contemporaneous",...

Two theses on the likelihood of international cooperation for achieving international optimality in transboundary pollution problems are being confronted: a pessimistic one and an optimistic one. On the one hand a “Small Stable Coalitions” (SSC) thesis — based on the stability of coali-...