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Democracy, rule of law, corruption incentives and growth

DE LA CROIX, David; DELAVALLADE, Clara - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008

We bridge the gap between the standard theory of growth and the mostly static theory of corruption. Some public … institutional parameters: the "technology of corruption" is the ease with which rent-seekers can capture a proportion of public … corruption are different according to the constraints that are binding at equilibrium. In particular, the effect of judicial …

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Growth, public investment and corruption with failing institutions

DE LA CROIX, David; DELAVALLADE, Clara - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2006

Corruption is thought to prevent poor countries from catching-up. We analyze one channel through which corruption …-seeking. At equilibrium, the intensity of corruption and the structure of public investment are determined by the predatory … without corruption in which there is no effective corruption yet still the possibility of corruption distorts the allocation …

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A note on equilibrium leadership in tax competition models

HINDRIKS, Jean; nishimura, YUKIHIRO - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2014

This paper reexamines the work of Kempf and Rota-Graziosi (J. Pub. Econ. 94: 768-776, 2010), which shows that leadership by the small region is the risk dominant equilibrium under the endogenous timing game. They obtain this result in a model where the asymmetry among countries translates into...

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International tax leadership among asymmetric countries

HINDRIKS, Jean; nishimura, YUKIHIRO - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2014

Multinational companies can shift profit and income between branches in order to reduce the overall tax liabilities of the company. The result is a tax competition between countries. In this paper we consider the sequential choice of tax rates to illustrate the potential effects of tax...

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Commodity tax competition and industry location under the destination- and the origin-principle

BEHRENS, Kristian; HAMILTON, Jonathan H.; OTTAVIANO, … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2007

We develop a model of commodity tax competition with monopolistically competitive internationally mobile firms, transport costs, and asymmetric country sizes. We investigate the impacts of non-cooperative tax setting, as well as of tax harmonization and changes in the tax principle, in both the...

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Can partial fiscal coordination be welfare worsening ? A model of tax competition

MARCHAND, Maurice; PESTIEAU, Pierre; SATO, Motohiro - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2002

Most work on tax competition argues that mobile factors tend to be undertaxed except if there is coordination of tax policies. Full coordination is not however always feasible, and as a consequence some measures of partial coordination have been proposed such as minimal witholding taxes on...

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Tax harmonisation and political competition

GRAZZINI, Lisa; van YPERSELE, Tanguy - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1997

In this paper, we analyse tax harmonisation in the framework of two countries asymmetric in their capital-labour endowment. In the first part, countries play a non-cooperative game and we examine how na- tional fiscal policies are decided according to majority voting. At the Nash equilibrium,...

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Transfer pricing and enforcement policy in oligopolistic markets

AMERIGHI, Oscar - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

In this paper we set up a symmetric two-country model with trade costs and international ownership to study the transfer pricing decisions by two multinationals operating in markets with Cournot competition. We let governments choose both the corporate profit tax rate and the level of...

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The effects of economic integration on the provision of mandatory education as a redistributive policy

DEL REY CANTELI, Elena - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1998

The aim of this paper is to investigate the implications of increased student mobility on the level of education provided after opening the borders between two similar countries. As a preliminary result, it will be shown that some public provision of mandatory education can be welfare improving...

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International commodity taxation in the presence of unemployment

MORICONI, Simone; SATO, Yasuhiro - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2006

This paper analyses the effect of consumption taxes on unemployment in presence of wage rigidity and compares non-cooperative tax setting under the destination and origin principle of commodity taxation. We show that, in a two country economy, consumption taxes negatively affect domestic...

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