particular, for a given coalition structure we study to what extend the stability of tax agreements is affected by the coalitions … means of a repeated game setting employing simple trigger strategies and we allow a sub-coalition to deviate from the … coalitional equilibrium. For a given form of punishment we are able to rank the stability of different coalition structures as …

The literature on tax competition generally concludes that international coordination of capital taxes among symmetric … cooperatively. The introduction of tax coordination cannot remove the incentive to compete for foreign capital, but simply shifts it … to the election stage. The paper proves that with standard specifications of the utility functions, coordination leads to …

endowments. We show that regardless of the structure of the coalition (i.e., any group of countries), whether partial tax …

provision of public goods and with it the welfare of all countries can be enhanced via tax coordination. Based on the standard … Zodrow-Mieszkowski-Wilson tax-competition model this paper analyses the conditions under which tax coordination by a group of … countries is self-enforcing. It is shown that there always exists a rather small stable tax coalition. For some subset of the …

provision of public goods and with it the welfare of all countries can be enhanced via tax coordination. Based on the standard … Zodrow-Mieszkowski-Wilson tax-competition model this paper analyses the conditions under which tax coordination by a group of … countries is self-enforcing. It is shown that there always exists a rather small stable tax coalition. For some subset of the …

coordination failure Whereas the harmful effects of tariff competition have been thoroughly explored in the trade policy literature …

also used to clarify the limits of welfare enhancing partial tax coordination of a subgroup of regions. In the used …