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Theory predicts that strategically-determined tax rates induce negative externalities across countries in relative …
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What are the macroeconomic effects of tax adjustments in response to large public debt shocks in highly integrated economies? The answer from standard closed-economy models is deceptive, because they underestimate the elasticity of capital tax revenues and ignore cross-country spillovers of tax...
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their classmates do worse. The theory presented below reconciles all of these facts by recognizing that classroom teaching … ranges away from equilibrium levels will adversely affect educational output. The theory argues for a particular non … by lowering class size. The theory provides a measurable and operational way to define school quality that can be tested …
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We revisit the classic problem of tax competition in the context of federal nations, and derive a positive theory of …
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and quite inconsistent empirical support of the theory. More importantly, none of this work addresses important questions …
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This paper studies how to design a fiscal constitution that, by capitalizing intergenerational spillovers into land values, is able to protect future generations from expropriation and to generate optimal investment in intergenerational public goods. In particular, we study how to accomplish...
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The standard international tax model is extended to allow for heterogeneous firms when agglomeration forces are …
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This paper reconsiders the question of whether tax competition for mobile capital leads to tax rates on capital that are too low or too high from the combined viewpoint of the competing regions (or countries in an economic union). In contrast to standard models of tax competition, both commodity...
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The behavior of taxes on capital income in the recent decades points to the notion that international tax competition …, a poor enforcement of international taxes would generate political processes that would reduce significantly the …
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, while preserving national sovereignties, minimizes the distortions from international capital mobility. The paper is … international capital flows diminish. The alternative system we analyze has two main properties: it exploits the territoriality of …
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