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various reasons for local government policy interactions, including fiscal competition, bidding for firms, yardstick … competition, expenditure spillovers, and Tiebout sorting. We discuss theoretically what parameters should be estimated to … determine the reason for competition among local governments. We emphasize how the policy outcomes emerging from this …
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Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can create externalities among workers, since their utility upon accepting a contract depends on their team's performance and therefore on their colleagues' productivity. We study the...
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Our paper extends the capital tax competition literature by incorporating heterogeneous capital and agglomeration. Our … model nests the standard tax competition model as well as the special case in which there is agglomeration but no firm …/capital heterogeneity and the opposite case, firm heterogeneity with no agglomeration. We build on the existing tax competition literature …
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, especially the wage formation process, influence the outcome of interjurisdictional tax competition and coordination. In …
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We study local tax competition when municipalities can voluntarily cooperate. We compare the intensity of …
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This paper develops a model of tax competition with three countries, which initially form a union where countries …
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extending models of commodity tax competition to include urban spatial structure (agglomeration) and online commerce, one can …
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income. While tax competition limits the extent to which redistribution is possible-as compared to the closed-economy outcome …
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We examine the effects of differences in income tax rates on commuting times within multi-state MSAs. Our theoretical model introduces a border into a model of an urban area and shows that differences in average tax rates distort commute times and interstate commutes. Empirically examining...
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Vertical externalities, changes in one level of government’s policies that affect the budget of another level of government, may lead to non-optimal government policies. These externalities are associated with tax bases that are shared or "co-occupied" by two levels of government. Here I...
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