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Commodity taxation and regulatory competion
Moriconi, Simone; Picard, Pierre M.; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2017
This paper studies theoretically and empirically competition in commodity taxation and product market regulation … taxes finance public goods, and product market regulation affects both the number of firms in the market and product … commodity taxation and product market regulation are interdependent policies. We find absence of strategic interaction in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603122
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On cooperation in Musgravian models of externalities within a federation
Tulkens, Henry - 2002
Musgravian externalities, formulated and illustrated by Musgrave in a 1966 paper on social goods are seen in this paper as one form of the interactions that occur between the components of a federation. The original formal apparatus is first exposed briefly. In that context, it is then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409762
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Privatization in Italy 1993-2002 : goals, institutions, outcomes, and outstanding issues
Goldstein, Andrea - 2003
This paper describes the privatization program in Italy during the 1990s and puts that policy in the context of macroeconomic adjustment, general market deregulation, and promotion of private investment in the provision of public infrastructure. The wave of state divestitures reached Italy later...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507688
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Fighting multiple tax havens
Elsayyad, May; Konrad, Kai A. - 2010
This paper develops a competition theory framework that evaluates an important aspect of the OECD's Harmful Tax Practices Initiative against tax havens. We show that the sequential nature of the process is harmful and more costly than a "big bang" multilateral agreement. The sequentiality may...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697539
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Households, markets and public choice
Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - 2014 - This Version: August 2014
We develop a model that combines competitive exchange of private commodities across endogenously formed groups with public good provision and global collective decisions. There is a tension between local and global collective decisions. In particular, we show that group formation and collective...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010399075
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The exploitation hypothesis in a public good economy : some extensions
Buchholz, Wolfgang; Sandler, Todd - 2016
Since Olson's (1965) The Logic of Collective Action, the exploitation hypothesis, in which the rich shoulders the provision burden of public goods for the poor, has held sway despite empirical exceptions. To address such exceptions, we establish two alternative exploitation hypotheses based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011416381
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Centralized fiscal spending by supranational unions
Simon, Jenny; Valasek, Justin - 2013 - This version: June 28, 2013
We study fiscal spending by supranational unions, where participation is voluntary and countries bargain over contributions to and the allocation of a central budget. We explore the link between the allocation and nations ́contributions that occurs since bargaining power is endogenous, and...
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Elections, fiscal policy and growth : revisiting the mechanism
Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2002
This short paper reconsiders the popular result that the lower the probability of getting reelected, the stronger the incumbent politicians incentive to follow short-sighted, inefficient policies. The set-up is a general equilibrium model of endogenous growth and optimal fiscal policy, in which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409401
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Hotelling tax competition
Wooders, Myrna Holtz; Zissimos, Benjamin - 2003
This paper shows how competition among governments for mobile firms can bring about excessive differentiation in levels of taxation and public good provision. Hotelling s Principle of Minimum Differentiation is applied in the context of tax competition and shown to be invalid. Instead, when an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507860
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Tax competition in a fiscal union with decentralized leadership
Köthenbürger, Marko - 2003
This paper examines capital tax competition in the presence of an interstate transfer policy without federal commitment. Lack of commitment implies that tax policy is chosen prior to federal transfers. The paper s main result is that ex-post federal policy internalizes horizontal fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011507899