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Strategic trade policy and merger profitability
Huck, Steffen; Konrad, Kai A. - 2003
We study the profitability incentives of merger and the endogenous industry structure in a strategic trade policy environment. Merger changes the strategic trade policy equlilibrium. We show that merger can be profitable and welfare enhancing here, even though it would not be profitable in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507913
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808634
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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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Product and labor market deregulation in unionized oligopoly with asymmetric countries
Egger, Hartmut; Meland, Frode - 2011
This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium trade model for two integrated countries that are similar in all respects except of the prevailing labor market institutions. In one country, the labor market is perfectly competitive, while in the other country labor unions are active in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314549
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Locational competition and agglomeration : the role of government spending
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2002
agenda. In contrast to the standard neo-classical reasoning, recent advances in the theory of trade and location have shown …
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Unionisation triggers tax incentives to attract foreign direct investment
Haufler, Andreas (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712512
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Tax rate and tax base competition for foreign direct investment
Egger, Peter; Raff, Horst - 2011
This paper argues that the large reduction in corporate tax rates and only gradual widening of tax bases in many countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To make this point we develop a model in which governments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009307961
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Competing for foreign direct investments : a real options approach
Panteghini, Paolo; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2003
This paper uses the Bad News Principle to study how the ability of multinationals to shift profits by transfer pricing affects both the timing of foreign direct investment decisions and government tax policy. A main finding of the paper is that if countries compete to attract foreign direct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507839
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A race beyond the bottom : the nature of bidding for a firm
Furusawa, Taiji; Hori, Kazumi; Wooton, Ian - 2010
We examine how the bidding environment may affect the outcome of tax competition between two countries (or two regions) in attracting a firm's foreign direct investment (FDI).We compare the equilibrium location choice and payoffs from an English auction, with both complete and incomplete...
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Wedges : distribution, distortions, and market integration
Bertola, Giuseppe - 2017 - First draft March 2017. This draft August 2017
This paper proposes a stylized model of policy determination and imperfect international integration. A country-specific policy wedge corrects labor market imperfections and/or redistributes welfare across differently wealthy agents. Capital market integration with the rest of the world, indexed...
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