preferences for redistribution. Second we demonstrate that social-policy does not have to be centralized in order to implement the …

Many theoretical models show that redistribution causes low growth or capital outflows even though empirically … redistribution and growth are often found to be positively associated across countries. This paper argues that tax competition and … the danger of capital outflows leads optimizing governments to pursue high growth, no redistribution policies in …

that increased mobility of production factors will pose a severe threat to redistribution possibility is less acute than it …

I propose a model of income redistribution in an open-economy environment. The world consists of a finite number of … income. While tax competition limits the extent to which redistribution is possible-as compared to the closed-economy outcome …