Topics in Dynamic Public Finance

Dynamic Analysis, Welfare, and Implications for Tax Reform

I work on a wide range of economic policies. While each area raises unique issues, the ultimate question in analyzing any of them is the same: what impact will this policy have on welfare? In many of the topics I work on, there is not a well-developed, coherent framework for answering that question. As a result, we often have to rely on heuristics: what stimulus measure has the most bang-for-th...

How does private finance affect public health care systems? Marshaling the evidence from OECD nations.

The impact of private finance on publicly funded health care systems depends on how the relationship between public and private finance is structured. This essay first reviews the experience in five nations that exemplify different ways of drawing the public/private boundary to address the particular questions raised by each model. This review is then used to interpret aggregate empirical analy...

New Dynamic Public Finance: A User’s Guide

The New Dynamic Public Finance

Housing Finance: The Role of the Private Sector in Public-Private Partnership in Housing Delivery for the Low-Income in Nigeria

Events in the building industry in Nigeria in the last decade show the important role the private sector played in housingfinance. With the advent of the public-private partnership concept in almost every sector of the socio-economic spheresof the nation, the role of the private sector in housing finance cannot be over-emphasized. This paper clearly states thatthe low-income public servants do ...