No. 23-4, August 2021

Index

• A political foundation of public investment and welfare spending
• Competition and the risk of bank failure: Breaking with the representative borrower assumption
• Conflict prevention by Bayesian persuasion
• Existence of equilibrium in an overlapping‐generations model with government debt
• Free and second‐best entry in oligopolies with network effects
• Issue Information
• Optimal taxation in an endogenous growth model with variable population and public expenditure
• Public investment criteria under optimal nonlinear income taxation without commitment
• VAT and the taxation of rents