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In a two-country economy we analyze how tax competition differs from the standard all-Nashian tax competition, if one or both countries are Kantians in Roemer’s sense. Kantians are shown to choose a higher tax rate than Nashians for any given tax rate of the other country, which indicates that...
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endowments. We show that regardless of the structure of the coalition (i.e., any group of countries), whether partial tax …
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provision of public goods and with it the welfare of all countries can be enhanced via tax coordination. Based on the standard … Zodrow-Mieszkowski-Wilson tax-competition model this paper analyses the conditions under which tax coordination by a group of … countries is self-enforcing. It is shown that there always exists a rather small stable tax coalition. For some subset of the …
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In the context of international tax coordination incomplete information is one of the well-known frictions that can … lead to bargaining failure and might explain a lack of observed coordination. We consider international negotiations about … tax coordination under complete and incomplete information. We identify the conditions for multilateral negotiations to be …
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If countries anticipate Bertrand competition in tax rates, they may expend effort that makes some of their tax payers less mobile or increases the mobility of tax payers elsewhere. I provide piecemeal evidence on what activities countries use. I analyse how such activities interact with Bertrand...
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We extent a solvable version of the core-periphery agglomeration model to four countries located in two regions. The paper shows that there might still be a race to the bottom in capital income tax rates despite agglomeration rents earned by the mobile factor. We find that intra-regional tax...
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Pareto-efficient solution under coordination and the unilaterally optimal policy under competition for mobile capital. In the …
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policy. To this end, we expand the modest coalition formation game, in which countries first decide on whether to join an … and emissions. We find that strategic delegation crowds out all efforts to increase coalition sizes by less ambitious …
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choice affects coordination. In a fixed interaction treatment, a vast majority of subjects quickly coordinates on the …
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This paper analyzes enhanced cooperation agreements in corporate taxation in a three country tax competition model where countries differ in size. We characterize equilibrium tax rates and the optimal tax responses due to the formation of an enhanced cooperation agreement. Conditions for...
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