前言 1
Acknowledgments 1
Part Ⅰ Public Finance,Fiscal Decentralization,and Economic Growth 3
1.The Composition of Public Expenditure and Economic Growth,Journal of Monetary Economics,37:313—344,1996 3
2.Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth:A Cross-Country Study,Journal of Urban Economics,43:244—257,1998 35
3.Fiscal Decentralization and Economic Growth in the United States,Journal of Urban Economics,45:228—239,1999 49
4.Should Public Capital be Subsidized or Provided?Journal of Monetary Economics,41:319—331,1998 61
5.Dynamic Effects of Federal Grants on Local Spending,Journal of Urban Economics,36:98—115,1994 74
6.Taxes,Federal Grants,Local Public Spending,and Growth,Journal of Urban Economics,39:303—317,1996 92
Part Ⅱ The Spirit of Capitalism,Saving,Money,and Growth 109
7.‘The Spirit of Capitalism’and Long-Run Growth,European Journal of Political Economy,10:279—293,1994 109
8.The Spirit of Capitalism and Savings Behavior,Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,28:131—143,1995 124
9.The Spirit of Capitalism,Social Status,Money,and Accumulation,Journal ofEconomics,68(3):219—233,1998 137
10.Socialist Economic Growth and Political Investment Cycles,European Journal of Political Economy,7:141—157,1991 155
Part Ⅲ Socialist Economies 155
11.A Note on the Bauer-Kornai Investment Cycle Theory,China Economic Review,4(1):75—81,1993 172
12.On the Dynamics of Privatization,China Economic Review,5(2):221—233,1994 179
13.Fiscal Decentralization,Public Spending,and Economic Growth in China,Journal of Public Economics,67:221—240,1998 192
Part Ⅳ Income Distribution 215
14.Explaining International and Intertemporal Variations in Income Inequality,The Economic Journal,108:26—43,1998 215
15.Income Inequality is not Harmful for Growth:Theory and Evidence,Review of Development Economics,2(3):318—334,1998 233
16.Corruption,Income Distribution,and Growth,Economics and Politics,12(2):155—182,2000 250
Part Ⅴ Other Essays on Dynamic Analysis 281
17.Dollarization and Inflation in a Two-Country Optimization Model,Journal of International Money and Finance,12:209—220,1993 281
18.Short-Run Analysis of Fiscal Policy and the Current Account in a Finite Horizon Model,Journal of Macroeconomics,16(2):347—357,1994 293
19.Dynamic Analysis in the Viner Model of Mercantilism,Journal of International Money and Finance,16(4):637—651,1997 304
20.A Dynamic Model of Capital and Arms Accumulation,Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control,19:371—393,1995 319