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Competing for capital in a lumpy world
Kind, Hans Jarle; Midelfart, Helene; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2000
This paper uses a new economic geography model to analyze tax competition betweeen two countries trying to attract internationally mobile capital. Each government may levy a source tax on capit al and a lump sum tax on fixed labor. If industry is concentrated in one of the countries, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781526
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The role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition
Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim - 2009
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 …
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Competition for firms in an oligopolistic industry : do firms or countries have to pay?
Haufler, Andreas (contributor); Wooton, Ian (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003497524
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City competition for the creative class
Büttner, Thiess; Janeba, Eckhard - 2013
This paper explores the conditions under which decentralization and fiscal competition lead to a policy of subsidizing cultural activities. A theoretical analysis discusses these subsidies as a form of local public good provision which makes a city more attractive to highly educated individuals....
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Spilling over and crowding out : the effects of public sector/private sector convergence and competition, in the provision of public goods
Barrowclough, Diana - 2001
This paper develops an original model of product differentiation, to contribute to the debate about theregulation and finance of public television. It goes beyond the conventional analysis in this topic, byshowing the spill-over effects that a public broadcaster can have upon commercial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400384
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The measurement of spatial competition : evidence from the real estate market
Siebert, Ralph; Zhou, Xiaoyan - 2024
This study provides a test for measurement of spatial competition in residential real estate markets. Several alternative spatial competition measures are tested. We employ a Bertrand oligopoly model with differentiated products and adopt a Spatial Autoregressive model using a two stage least...
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Horizontal mergers and product quality
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2015
We study the effects of horizontal mergers when firms compete on quality and price. Two key factors are identified: (i) the magnitude of variable quality costs, and (ii) the relative magnitudes of cross-quality and cross-price effects on demand. The merging firms will increase (reduce) both...
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Can competition reduce quality?
Brekke, Kurt R.; Siciliani, Luigi; Straume, Odd Rune - 2014
In a spatial competition setting there is usually a non-negative relationship between competition and quality. In this paper we offer a novel mechanism whereby competition leads to lower quality. This mechanism relies on two key assumptions, namely that the providers are motivated and...
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Optimal compatibility in systems markets
Kim, Sang-Hyun; Choi, Jay Pil - 2014
We investigate private and social incentives for standardization to ensure market-wide system compatibility in a two-dimensional spatial competition model. We develop a new methodology to analyze competition on a torus and show that there is a fundamental conflict of interest between consumers...
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Market concentration and product variety under spatial competition : evidence from retail gasoline : presented at CESifo Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Recent Developments in...
Goetz, Georg; Gugler, Klaus - 2004
We show that for a spatially differentiated economy reduced product variety is the likely outcome of mergers except in cases where exit costs in relation to (outlet-specific) fixed costs are high. Our empirical analysis of the Austrian retail gasoline market confirms that increases in...
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