Cet article a pour but de demontrer la viabilite des politique de taxation du capital dans une economie mondiale a deux pays avec imparfaite substituabilite des capitaux. Les agents sont altruistes et donnent une partie de leur patrimoine a leurs enfants. La presence d'une contrainte sur les...

Nous developpons un modele dans lequel les gouvernement peuvent s'exhanger des informations sur les investissements effectues sur leur territoire par les agents etrangers.

Models of tax competition usually assume a single period framework. This paper sets up a repeated interactions model of tax competition, and establishes conditions under which fiscal policy harmonization can result from repeated interactions between governments. It is shown that fiscal policy...

We study the relationship between social segmentation and income inequality by means of the economic theory of clubs with private provision of the club good. After having characterized the equilibrium partition of society in clubs and investigating its characteristics, we show how the clubs'...

In contrast to Mundell's inquiry on the optimality of currency areas, this paper aims to understand under what circumstances will a Pareto-dominant monetary union be established. Using a multi-country overlapping generations model, we highlight gains from monetary union arising from reduced...