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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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We study firm responses to local policies through a survey experiment, providing randomized information on the competitiveness of business tax rates and highway access in their headquarters’ municipality. Firms often misperceive local policy competitiveness, especially for tax rates....
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We study firm responses to local policies through a survey experiment, providing randomized information on the competitiveness of business tax rates and highway access in their headquarters’ municipality. Firms often misperceive local policy competitiveness, especially for tax rates....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015396865
We study firm responses to local policies through a survey experiment, providing randomized information on the competitiveness of business tax rates and highway access in their headquarters' municipality. Firms often misperceive local policy competitiveness, especially for tax rates. Investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015415647
The paper shows that interjurisdictional competition for mobile factors of production forces the government to raise ….g. user charges, a Leviathan may be tamed by interjurisdictional competition whereas this is not necessarily true in the case …
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In this paper we investigate tax/subsidy competition for FDI between countries of different size when a domestic firm … policy competition between the two governments seeking to attract FDI. We show that the country hosting the incumbent always … welfare-maximizer location. Finally, an efficiency-enhancing role of policy competition may only arise when the domestic …
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We consider an exchange economy in which a seller can trade an endowment of a divisible good whose quality she privately knows. Buyers compete in menus of non-exclusive contracts, so that the seller may choose to trade with several buyers. In this context, we show that an equilibrium always...
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We reinvestigate the case in which insurers have superior information regarding consumer's risk types, as studied by Villeneuve (2005, European Economic Review 49, 321-340). While Villeneuve produces interesting results on insurance contracts, the diverse outcomes make it difficult to pinpoint...
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