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Bernard P. Herber

Professor Emeritus

Areas of Expertise

• Public economics
• International public finance

Selected Research Papers

• “Protecting the Antarctic Commons: Economic Efficiency Issues,” International Atlantic Economic Society, Chicago, October 2004.
• “Tax Instruments, User Charges, and the Internalization of International Environmental Externalities,” International Atlantic Economic Society, Charleston, SC, October 2000.
• “Public Finance Beyond Nations: The New International Public Finance,” Spanish Public Finance Conference, University of Salamanca, February 1995.
• “International Environmental Taxation in the Absence of Sovereignty,” Working Paper of the International Monetary Fund, December 1992, WP/92/104.

Selected Publications

Journal Articles

• “International Taxation: Economic Merits and Political Obstacles,” International Jorrnal of Evelopment Planning Literature, Vol. 13, No. 2, 1998.
• “Pigovian Taxation at the Supranational Level: Fiscal Provisions of the International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund,” Journal of Environment and Development, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1997.
• “An International Carbon Tax to Combat Global Warming: An Economic and Political Analysis of the European Union Proposal,” with Jose Raga, American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 54, No. 3, 1995.
• “The Economic Case for an Antarctic World Park in Light of Recent Policy Developments,” Polar Record, Vol. 28, No. 167, 1992.
• “Mining or World Park? A Politico-Economic Analysis of Alternative Land Use Regimes in Antarctica,” Natural Resources Journal, Vol. 31, No. 4, 1991.
• “The Economic Case for an International Law of the Atmosphere,” Environment and Planning: Government and Policy, Vol. 9, 1991.

Books

• Public Finance and Public Debt, ed., Wayne State University Press: 1986.
• Modern Public Finance, 5 th edition, Irwin: 1983

Chapters in Books

• “Innovative Financial Mechanisms for Sustainable Development: Overcoming the Political Obstacles to International Taxation,” in Finance for Sustainable Development, United Nations, 1997.
• “The International Public Goods of Antarctica: A New Politico-Economic Regime for the World’s Seventh Continent?”, in Public Finance, Trade, and Development, Vito Tanzi, ed., Wayne State University Press, 1990.
• “Personal Income Taxation under Federalism: Vertical and Horizontal Fiscal Balance Effects,” in Taxation and Federalism: Essays in Honor of Russell Mathews, G. Brennan, B. Grewal, and P. Groenewegen, eds., Pergamon: Australian National University, 1988.
• “The State and Redistribution: An Historical Look at Egalitarianism in the United States ,” in Public Sector and Political Economy Today, H. Hanusch, K. Roskamp, and J. Wiseman (eds.), Gustav Fischer Verlag, 1985.