Are the predictions of tax competition theory wrong? Recent empirical results on capital taxation suggest that this might be the case. While tax competition literature predicts that capital taxes decrease with increasing globalisation, empirical studies on various data find contradicting...

National authorities are presently not willing to install a supranational authority vested with the competencies required to internalize global environmental externalities. Therefore we adopt a dynamic framework of two economies (i.e. Europe and rest of world) and analyze their strategic...