Public economics the macroeconomic perspective.

• Main Author: Burkhard Heer.
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2020
• Subjects: Macroeconomics
• Online Access: http://dspace.uniten.edu.my/jspui/handle/123456789/15338

The writing and the quality of a comprehensive graduate textbook on “Public Economies” such as the present one relies upon many discussions, recommendations, and comments from students, colleagues, and fellow researchers. This book grew out of first- and second-year graduate-level introductory courses to public economics at the Universities of Augsburg and Bolzano. Parts of this book have also been taught as PhD courses on pension and debt policies at the Universities of Luxembourg and Leipzig. I would like to thank many graduate students from Augsburg, Bolzano, Leipzig, and Luxembourg for their valuable input into this book and for their patience during my courses while I was testing the material on them. I would also like to thank Andreas Irmen, Alfred Maußner, Ludger Linnemann, Vito Polito, Kerstin Roeder, Christian Scharrer, Bernd Süssmuth, and Mark Trede for helpful comments and suggestions. A significant amount of computer code that was originally composed by Alfred has also found its way into my code for this book.Without Alfred’s input, the book would not have been possible. Of course, all remaining errors are mine. Part of this book was written during my stays at Fordham University, New York, the University of Luxembourg, and the Federal Reserve Bank at St. Louis. I would like to thank Paul McNelis, Andreas Irmen, ChristopherWaller, and Christian Zimmermann for their hospitality. Of course, the views expressed in this book are all mine and do not necessarily reflect the official positions of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, the Federal Reserve System, or the Board of Governors. For their assistance in the preparation of the computer program download page, the statistics, and the illustrations, I would like to thank Sijmen Duineveld, Alexander Lerf, Stefan Rohrbacher, and Benjamin Weiß. For her proofreading, I am also grateful to Anja Erdl. I also thank Martina Bihn at Springer Publishing Company for editorial suggestions and corrections and for her support and help through the editorial process. For inspiration, I would like to thank Pete Kilkenny. His fabulous paintings of cows helped me to envision resilience and stoicism, which were valuable inputs while writing this book.