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Income Stratifcation in Multi-Community Models

Schmidheiny, Kurt - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2002

This paper presents necessary conditions for stratification of the population in multi-community models with housing markets and heterogeneous households. The conditions for the sorting of the population according to income classes or other dimensions of heterogeneity are established without...

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Equilibrium and Stratification with Local Income Taxation when Households Differ in both Preferences and Incomes

Schmidheiny, Kurt - Department Volkswirtschaftlehre, Universität Bern - 2002

differ in both incomes and their taste for housing. The existence of a stratified equilibrium is shown in a calibrated two …-community model assuming realistic single-peaked distributions for income and housing taste. The equilibrium features stratification … has great impact on the equilibrium situation. The ability of the rich community to set low taxes is higher when this …

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Income Segregation from Local Income Taxation When Households Differ in Both Preferences and Incomes

Schmidheiny, Kurt - Department of Economics, Tufts University - 2005

differ in both incomes and their taste for housing. The existence of a segregated equilibrium is shown in a calibrated two …-community model assuming single-peaked distributions for both income and housing taste. The equilibrium features income segregation of …

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Community choice and local income taxation

Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2004 - Als Ms. gedr.

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Income segregation from local income taxation when households differ in both preferences and incomes

Schmidheiny, Kurt - In: Regional science & urban economics 36 (2006) 2, pp. 270-299

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Estimating the rivalness of state-level inward FDI

Brülhart, Marius; Schmidheiny, Kurt - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2011

Decentralized fiscal decision making is more likely to be optimal if regional tax bases are non-rival, in the sense that one region's gain is no other relevant region's loss. We develop a method for estimating the rivalness of tax bases using the underlying structures of the conditional logit,...

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Mobility and Progressive Taxation

Roller, Marcus; Schmidheiny, Kurt - European Regional Science Association - 2014

In fiscally centralised countries with a unique country-wide income tax schedule, it is straightforward to quantify the degree of progressivity. In fiscally decentralised countries with varying local tax schedules, however, this is not the case. In these countries, the effective tax...

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Taxes in Cities

Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we review the literature on a number of salient...

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Taxes in Cities

Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - CESifo - 2014

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Taxes in Cities

Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - Départment d'économétrie et d'économie politique … - 2014

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