settle where taxes are lowest, government are forced "in the splits" (double Bertrand-type tax competition). We assume that … (distorted) labour market and the fiscal game takes the form of competition among strategic intermediaries. Results from the … theory of intermediation are applied to this framework, enabling us to explain why government size may increase rather than …

Tax competition for a mobile factor is different in 'new economic geography settings' compared to standard tax … competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the core region can be taxed. Moreover, a tax …

stylized facts by setting up a simple two-country model of tax competition with heterogeneous firms. In this model a unique … simultaneous expansion of both markets intensifies tax competition and causes both countries to reduce their tax rates, despite …

We introduce tax competition for mobile labor into an optimal-taxation model with two skill levels. We analyze a … symmetric subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium of the game between two governments and two taxpayer populations. Tax competition …

stylized facts by setting up a simple two-country model of tax competition with heterogenous firms. In this model a unique … simultaneous expansion of both markets intensifies tax competition and causes both countries to reduce their tax rates, despite …

Tax competition for a mobile factor is different in 'new economic geography set- tings' compared to standard tax … competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the core region can be taxed. Moreover, a tax …

as suggested in consumer research. On this basis, we investigate monopoly and competition between firms, described via an …

violated. It is shown that more competition makes the equilibrium signaling more informative when the level of competition is … moderate. Moreover, the equilibrium signaling can perfectly reveal the ability under a certain level of competition. On the … other hand, too much competition always makes the equilibrium signaling less informative. …