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The Principle and Market Failure in Systems Competition

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2022

. The third studies the role of quality regulation and shows that systems competition may be a competition of laxity …

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International Trade and Domestic Regulation

Staiger, Robert W. - 2009

Existing formal models of the relationship between trade policy and regulatory policy suggest the potential for a regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations. This paper bridges the gap between the existing formal...

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The Competition between Competition Rules

Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2021

Open borders imply systems competition. This paper studies the implications of systems competition for the national competition rules. It is shown that an equilibrium where all countries retain their antitrust laws does not exist, since abolishing this law makes it possible for a single country...

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Who Offers Tax-Based Business Development Incentives?

Felix, R. Alison - 2011

Many American communities seek to attract or retain businesses with tax abatements, tax credits, or tax increment financing of infrastructure projects (TIFs). The evidence for 1999 indicates that communities are most likely to offer one or more of these business development incentives if their...

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Vying for Foreign Direct Investment : A Eu-Type Model of Tax Competition

Razin, Assaf - 2006

This paper brings out the special mechanism through which taxes influence bilateral FDI, when investment decisions are two-fold in the presence of fixed setup flows costs. For each pair of source-host countries, there is a set of factors determining whether aggregate FDI flows will occur at all,...

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A Quantitative Analysis of Subsidy Competition in the U.S

Ossa, Ralph - 2015

I use a quantitative economic geography model to explore subsidy competition among U.S. states. I ask what motivates state governments to subsidize firm relocations and quantify how strong their incentives are. I also characterize fully non-cooperative and cooperative subsidy choices and assess...

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Climate Policy Under Cooperation and Competition between Regions with Spatial Heat Transport

Cai, Yongyang - 2018

We build a novel stochastic dynamic regional integrated assessment model (IAM) of the climate and economic system including a number of important climate science elements that are missing in most IAMs. These elements are spatial heat transport from the Equator to the Poles, sea level rise,...

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Manufacturing Plant Location : Does State Pollution Regulation Matter?

Gray, Wayne B. - 2021

This paper tests whether differences across states in pollution regulation affect the location of manufacturing … index of state environmental laws. A significant connection is found: states with more stringent environmental regulation …, gets similar coefficients. This raises the possibility that differences between states other than environmental regulation …

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Jurisdictional Advantage

Feldman, Maryann P.; Martin, Roger L. - 2021

Our objective in this paper is to define jurisdictional advantage, the recognition that location is critical to firms' innovative success and that every location has unique assets that are not easily replicated. The purpose is to be normative and policy oriented. Drawing from the well-developed...

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Is China'S FDI Coming at the Expense of Other Countries?

Eichengreen, Barry; Tong, Hui - 2021

We analyze how China's emergence as a destination for foreign direct investment is affecting the ability of other countries to attract FDI. We do so using an approach that accounts for the endogeneity of China's FDI. The impact turns out to vary by region. China's rapid growth and attractions as...

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