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 …. When regions weigh workers' and capitalists' welfare equally, the core region will set its subsidy low enough that the …

imposing negative value-added taxes (subsidy) or positive specific taxes …

from the steady state under current R&D subsidization in the US, the R&D subsidy should significantly jump upwards and then … slightly decrease over time. There is a negligible loss in welfare, however, from immediately setting the R&D subsidy to its …

framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its … the policy substitution problem. Finally, we employ the theory to analyze the Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM …

In this paper, we analyse the role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition. Our primary result is that increasing … mobility intensifies tax competition, it weakens subsidy competition. The resulting fall in the governments' subsidy payments … in which two governments are first engaged in subsidy competition and thereafter in tax competition, and firms locate and …

political debate. At the same time, the literature is surprisingly silent about the magnitude of possible efficiency costs of a … departure from tax neutrality. Against this background, the present paper discusses the theory of capital structure and provides … back-of-the-envelope calculations of the possible efficiency cost of a tax distortion of the debtequity decision …

disposal a capital tax and an environmental standard. Petchey (2015) claims that the efficiency result of Oates and Schwab can … be extended to a large price-influencing jurisdiction. In the present note we show that the concept of Pareto efficiency …

successors to the Kyoto protocol are assessed according to four criteria: economic efficiency; environmental effectiveness …