General Public Finance Links:

U.S. Federal budget information

U.S. tax information

U.S. Census of governments

U.S. Treasury

U.S. federal statistics

Congressional Budget Office

Congressional Quarterly

Economic Report of the President

U.S. tax history

National Tax Association

National Conference of State Legislatures

National Bureau of Economic Research

Resources for Economists

Charles Holt’s classroom games

International Monetary Fund

World Bank

OECD

European Union



Chapter 1 

European Union       

http://www.eurunion.org/

Adam Smith

http://www.adamsmith.org/

U.S. Constitution

www.house.gov/Constitution/Constitution.html



Chapter 2   

U.S. Census of Governments, state and local government finance 

www.census.gov/govs/www/estimate.html



Chapter 3   

Global public goods 

www.undp.org/globalpublicgoods/

http://www.globalpolicy.org/socecon/ffd/gpg/

What is a public good? 

http://mondediplo.com/2000/06/15publicgood

William King’s tutorial on public goods 

http://william-king.www.drexel.edu/top/prin/txt/Govch/PG6.html

Volunteering in public good games:  http://www.univie.ac.at/virtuallabs/PublicGoods/

Vilfredo Pareto

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/pareto.htm



Chapter 4   

Externalities:

http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASC/EXTERNALITI.html

http://ingrimayne.saintjoe.edu/econ/resouceProblems/FreeRes2.html

http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/pubs_html/rea/feature1.html

http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/dc/copper/theory/th19.htm

http://www.bized.ac.uk/virtual/dc/works/extern.htm

http://www.fte.org/teachers/lessons/efl/efllesson6.htm

http://users.hunterlink.net.au/~ddhrg/econ/ext1.html

James. E. Meade 

http://almaz.com/nobel/economics/1977b.html

Kyoto Protocol: 

http://unfccc.int/

http://unfccc.int/resource/convkp.html



Chapter 5   

Money income in the U.S.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/income.html

Poverty in the U.S.

http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty.html

Food stamps:

http://www.fns.usda.gov/fsp/

U.S. House Committee on Ways and Means Green Book:

http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress/wm001.html

World poverty

http://www.worldbank.org/poverty/



Chapter 6   

Median voter model of social security

http://econpapers.hhs.se/article/ieriecrev/v_3A30_3Ay_3A1989_3Ai_3A2_3Ap_3A307-28.htm

Logrolling:

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logrolling

http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/index.html?http://www.auburn.edu/~johnspm/gloss/logrolling.html

http://econpapers.hhs.se/article/oupecinqu/v_3A33_3Ay_3A1995_3Ai_3A3_3Ap_3A441-56.htm

Rentseeking

http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/reg19n4b.html

Charles Holt’s classroom game on rentseeking

http://www.people.virginia.edu/~cah2k/teaching.html

Mancur Olson

http://www.iris.umd.edu/aboutiris/olson.asp

Harold Hotelling’s Stability in Competition

http://cepa.newschool.edu/het/profiles/hotell.htm

http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/450/hotelling.html



Chapter 7   

World Bank benefit cost studies:

http://www.worldbank.org/education/economicsed/project/projwork/good/guana/cb15570.pdf

http://www.ifc.org/economics/pubs/dp30/dp30.pdf

http://www.worldbank.org/afr/findings/english/find86.htm

http://lnweb18.worldbank.org/sar/sa.nsf/Attachments/Education/$File/educ.pdf



Chapter 8   

Education production functions

http://www.uni-kiel.de/ifw/projects/eastasia.htm

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W6051

http://www.worldbank.org/html/dec/Publications/Workpapers/WPS1700series/wps1795/wps1795.pdf

Tolls

http://www.goldengatebridge.org/fastraktolls/

http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/bandt/traffic/btmain.htm



Chapter 9   

U.S. Income tax form

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040.pdf

http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040ez.pdf

Value-added taxation in Canada and the EU:

http://www.fedpubs.com/subject/taxation/valueadded.htm

http://www.eurunion.org/legislat/VATweb.htm#Rates

Flat Tax:

http://flattax.house.gov/

http://www-hoover.stanford.edu/PRESSWEBSITE/FlatTax/contents.html

http://www.ncpa.org/pi/taxes/tax7.html

Exemptions, deductions, and credits:

http://www.window.state.tx.us/taxinfo/incidence/



Chapter 10   

Excess burden studies (advanced):

http://www.rff.org/~parry/Papers/MEB_UK.pdf

http://www.eerc.ru/publications/workpapers/WP_98-05e.pdf

http://www.rff.org/CFDOCS/disc_papers/PDF_files/9948.pdf

Frank P. Ramsey

http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Hall/9643/Ramsey.html



Chapter 11

Incentive effects of taxes:

Savings:

http://www.bos.frb.org/economic/wp/wp2001/wp014.htm

http://econpapers.hhs.se/article/ifsfistud/v_3A15_3Ay_3A1994_3Ai_3A3_3Ap_3A19-63.htm

http://www.cato.org/dailys/12-10-02.html

Labor supply:

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w5023

http://www.econ.jhu.edu/People/Moffitt/TaxLSup.pdf

http://www.nber.org/books/tapes5-02/kniesner.pdf

Risk taking:

http://icg.harvard.edu/~ec1410/lectures/Desai_Lecture_Note_2_2002.pdf

http://econpapers.hhs.se/paper/nbrnberre/1940.htm

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8340

Tax evasion:

http://incometaxdelhi.nic.in/vsincometaxdelhi/evade/welcome.htm

http://www.beta.co.yu/korupcija/eng/regi2.asp?re=534

http://www.brook.edu/views/papers/wei/20010928.htm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1108338.stm



Chapter 12

Tax incidence:

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W8829

http://www.cppp.org/products/policyanalysis/taxincidence.html

http://www.accf.org/Harberger.htm

http://www.leg.state.or.us/comm/lro/rr2-01otim_finalreport.pdf

http://www.taxes.state.mn.us/reports/incid01.html

Expenditure incidence:

http://isp-aysps.gsu.edu/papers/ispwp0110.html

http://www.worldbank.org/education/economicsed/finance/public/ben_inc.htm

http://www4.worldbank.org/afr/poverty/pdf/internal/docnav/00779.pdf



Chapter 13

Income taxes:

http://www.irs.gov/

http://www.howstuffworks.com/income-tax.htm

http://www.taxfoundation.org/prtopincome.html

State income taxes:

http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/ind_inc.htmlhttp://www.taxsites.com/state.html

http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/tax_stru.html

Payroll taxes:

http://taxes.about.com/cs/payrolltaxes/

http://www.toolkit.cch.com/text/P07_1000.asp

http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/Northeast/11/08/tax.scam.ap/

EITC:

http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96456,00.html

http://www.cbpp.org/pubs/eitc.htm

http://www.chn.org/issues/issue.asp?iss=7

http://www.policyalmanac.org/social_welfare/eitc.shtml

Marriage tax:

http://www.kiplinger.com/tools/marriage.html

http://www.urban.org/family/marriage_tax.html

Tax reform:

http://flattax.house.gov/

http://www.gppf.org/pubs/commentaries/nunn.html

http://www.fairtax.org/

http://www.salestax.org/



Chapter 14

Corporate income tax:

www.irs.gov

http://www.ctj.org/itep/corp00pr.htm

http://www.taxfoundation.org/corporatetaxes.html

State rates:

http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/corp_inc.html

http://www.taxfoundation.org/corporateincometaxrates.html

Apportionment:

http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/corp_app.html



Chapter 15

Sales taxes:

http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/rate/sales.html

http://www.nga.org/nga/legislativeUpdate/1,1169,C_POLICY_POSITION%5ED_489,00.html

http://salestaxinstitute.com/sales_tax_rates.html

Excise taxes:

http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/research/factsheets/pdf/0202.pdf

http://www.arnet.gov/far/current/html/Subpart_29_2.html

http://www.rjrt.com/TI/tax.asp

http://www.discus.org/taxes/

Smuggling:

http://www.house.gov/commerce/issues/tobacco/issue3.pdf

http://www.fin.gc.ca/news98/98-019e.html

http://www.adic.org.ua/adic/reports/econ/ch-2/2-1.htm

http://www.taxfoundation.org/prcrossborder.html

Taxing electronic commerce:

http://www.webcom.com/software/issues/1ec-sttx.html

http://www.ecommercecommission.org/

http://www.law.wayne.edu/mcintyre/text/TLR-Electronic.pdf

http://www.netcaucus.org/events/1998/taxation/electcom.shtml



Chapter 16

Property taxes:

http://www.mncn.org/bp/incid01.pdf

http://www.ucop.edu/cprc/taxburdn.html

http://www-cpr.maxwell.syr.edu/faculty/duncombe/PPA734/Lectures_Summer_02/lecture_10.pdf

Property tax limitations:

http://www.hjta.org/prop13.htm

http://www.cato.org/dailys/7-30-98.html

http://www.caltax.org/research/prop13/prop13.htm

http://www.ppic.org/publications/occasional/chapman.occ.pdf

http://www.miltontimes.com/News/2002/0314/Front_Page/Prop25bypavlicek.html

http://frp.aysps.gsu.edu/frp/frpreports/report_37/no37_fr.html

http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/ii911115.html



Chapter 17

U.S. federal budget:

http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/fedbud.html

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/dsc/budget.html

http://policy.house.gov/html/budget.html

http://www2.hmc.edu/www_common/redink/index.html

Deficits and debt:

http://w3.access.gpo.gov/usbudget/fy1999/guide/guide04.html

http://netec.mcc.ac.uk/WoPEc/data/fipfedkpr.html

http://www.statcan.ca/english/kits/defic1.htm

EU government deficits:

http://europa.eu.int

Borrowing:

http://www.worldbank.org/html/fpd/urban/publicat/rd-fm8a.htm

http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/psamuni.html



Chapter 18

Fiscal federalism:

http://www.rand.org/publications/CF/CF123/

http://www.worldbank.org/wbi/publicfinance/decentralization/fiscalfederalism_Russia.htm

http://www.federalism2002.ch/english/b_2_3.htm

http://www.aucc.ca/en/programs/cepra/watts_hobson.pdf

Decentralization:

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:RC3PZIhg7eoC:www.worldbank.org/wbi/publicfinance/documents/seco_presentations/ebel.ppt+multilevel+government+finance.=en=UTF-8

http://www.indiana.edu/~workshop/papers/petak_093002.pdf

Fiscal disparities:

http://www.huduser.org/periodicals/cityscpe/vol1num1/ch14.html

http://www.lmnc.org/proptax/fiscal101.htm

http://www.metrocouncil.org/metroarea/fiscaldisp.htm

http://www.bctv.org/Community/RuskReport/reducing_fiscal_disparities_thro.htm

Fiscal equalization:

http://www.aims.ca/Equalization/incentive.pdf



Chapter 19

Club goods:

http://www.arec.umd.edu/Policycenter/contractsinag/papersfolder/kephaliacos-and-robin.pdf

Tiebout model:

http://www.csiss.org/classics/content/43

http://216.239.37.100/search?q=cache:tdUcNFYUStoC:www.faculty.econ.northwestern.edu/faculty/worthington/tiebout_2.pdf+tiebout+model=en=UTF-8

http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/ebrunner/classes/econ710/notes/tiebout.pdf

Charles Tiebout:

http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/VIP/Tiebout.html



Chapter 20

Public Finance Policy-Related Web Sites:

Internal Revenue Service (IRS)

http://www.irs.ustreas.gov

General Accounting Office (GAO)

http://www.goa.gov

Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

http://www.cbo.gov

Senate

http://www.senate.gov

House

http://www.house.gov

Treasury

http://www.ustreas.gov

House Ways and Means Committee

http://www.access.gpo.gov/congress

Brookings Institution

http://www.brook.edu/dybdocroot/

American Enterprise Institution

http://www.aei.org/

World Bank

http://www.worldbank.org

IMF

http://www.imf.org/

IRIS

http://www.iris.umd.edu



Policy career sites:

University of Michigan Ford School of Public Policy career library resources

http://www/spp/umich.edu/careers/library.htm

University of Texas LBJ School career web links

http://www.utexas.edu/lbj/osap/career/students/links/jobsites.html

Harvard Kennedy School career web links

http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/career/weblinks/htm

Carnegie Mellon University Heinz School career web links

http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/currents/cs/online.html

Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs career web links

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/sipa/OCS/LINKS/linksindex.html

Job Openings for Economists

http://www.eco.utexas.edu/AEA/joe