This paper investigates the sustainability of fiscal co-ordination between two regions according to three criteria of co-ordination: tax harmonization, fiscal cooperation and bargaining. We show that in a two-region model in which regions differ in size, bargaining is the only sustainable...

This paper analyses strategic fiscal policy-making within the context of the standard two-country-two-good real trade model developped by Turnovsky (1988). Introducing asymmetry between the two countries and assuming that one country acts as a Stackelberg leader relative to the other one, we...