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Tax Competition, Elastic Labor Supply, and Growth

Hange, Ulrich - 2021

In this paper we investigate the effects of tax competition in a simple endogenous growth model with elastic labor supply. Our analysis focuses on two issues. First, we show that all taxes, i.e. on capital, labor, and consumption, are harmful for growth. Second, we derive the optimal tax policy....

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Fiscal Competition, Convergence and Agglomeration

Fenge, Robert - 2007

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal competition through infrastructure in a New Economic Geography framework. It is shown that regional competition leads to convergence if the trade costs are high but induces divergence if trade cost have fallen below a certain value. Moreover, fiscal...

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Estimating Labour Supply Elasticities Based on Cross-Country Micro Data : A Bridge Between Micro and Macro Estimates?

Jäntti, Markus - 2014

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...

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The Relevance of Amenities and Agglomeration for Dutch Housing Prices

Garretsen, Harry - 2011

Dutch cities which combine a favorable location in terms of distance to work with a variety of urban amenities appear to be the most attractive locations for people to live. Relatively safe cities, offering a variety of history and culture events, as well as good restaurants have significantly...

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Reflections on Cluster Policies

Brakman, Steven - 2012

Economic activity tends to cluster. This results in productivity gains. For policy makers this offers an opportunity to formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are often found in empirical research a rationale for...

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Do Governments Tax Agglomeration Rents?

Koh, Hyun-Ju - 2010

Using the German local business tax as a testing ground, we empirically investigate the impact of firm agglomeration on municipal tax setting behavior. The analysis exploits a rich data source on the population of German firms to construct detailed measures for the communities' agglomeration...

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The Taxation of Superstars

Scheuer, Florian - 2015

elasticity measures are not sufficient statistics and must be adjusted upwards in optimal tax formulas. Finally, we study a …

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On the Generalised Anti-Inverse Elasticity Rule : An Existence Result

Minagawa, Junichi - 2018

inverse-elasticity rule. We also verify the necessary and sufficient condition for the optimal solution to exhibit uniform …

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Economic Integration Agreements, Border Effects, and Distance Elasticities in the Gravity Equation

Bergstrand, Jeffrey H.; Larch, Mario; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2021

confirm recent evidence providing a solution to the “distance-elasticity puzzle,” but show that these estimates of the …

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Efficient Education Policy - A Second-Order Elasticity Rule

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2021

education should be effectively subsidized if, and only if, the elasticity of the earnings function is increasing in education …. The strength of second-best subsidization increases in the elasticity of the elasticity of the earnings function. This … second-order elasticity rule extends the well-known Ramsey-Boiteux Inverse Elasticity Rule …

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