simulation results for eastern Germany, a forerunner in the demographic process, show that the population decline will not help …

,000 municipalities in Germany to analyze the sensitivity of the location decisions of foreign MNEs with respect to business tax rates …

This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric … subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the industry core is inefficiently locked in to the smaller region …

incorporated. We find that tougher competition between the JV partners may actually increase channel profit under such a scheme. We …

industrialized societies. To analyze this pattern, we incorporate directed labor market search into a dynamic model of international … firm growth explains some recent empirical regularities on firm and labor market dynamics. Fitting the model to capture key … interact in shaping labor market outcomes. Focusing on the period 1996-2007, we find that neither trade nor key features of the …

competition where states compete on a variety of margins that are often ignored by the standard focus on tax rates. Using the …