Tax competition between two countries is considered in a trade- and-location setting with differentiated products and monopolistic competition. There are two groups of workers, mobile ones and immobile ones. Taxes are used for producing a public good. It is shown that an equilibrium with mobile...

A simple N-country specific-factor model with imperfectly mobile labour is developed. It is shown that effects of country-specific productivity shocks hitting a small country are fundamentally asymmetric. A positive shock will be accomodated by a moderate wage increase and sizable in-migration,...