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Public Finance Review

(ISSN 1552-7530)

Public Finance Review is a scholarly economics journal devoted to policy-oriented economic research and theory, which focuses on a variety of allocation, distribution, and stabilization functions within the public sector economy. Economists, policy makers, political scientists, and researchers all rely on Public Finance Review, to bring them the most up-to-date analysis of the ever changing public finance systems around the world and to help them put policies and research into action. Public Finance Review presents rigorous empirical and theoretical papers on public economic policies, and also examines their impacts and consequences. The journal analyzes the nature and function of evolving governmental fiscal policies at the national, state and local levels, with the goal of providing analysis that it is of interest to an international audience. Each peer-reviewed issue explores a variety of subject areas, bringing comprehensive coverage of the public-sector economy today. Issues recently examined include: social security financing, tax neutrality and social welfare, politics and deficit finance, tax credits for job creation, public education subsidies, mixed outputs of non-profit organizations, government loan guarantees, distributional effects of social security, and intergovernmental fiscal relations.