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Luxemburg gehört zu den Gewinnern des Steuerwettbewerbs bei Abgaben auf spezielle Güter wie Kraftstoffe, Tabakwaren und Kaffee. Das Papier modelliert das Aufkommen der Steuern auf Benzin und Diesel in Luxemburg auf der Basis von Daten des Jahres 2005. Abweichend von bisherigen Studien...
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Im Hinblick auf eine mögliche Reform des kommunalen Finanzausgleichs in Niedersachsen weist dieser Beitrag auf den Zusammenhang zwischen diesem System und den Gewerbesteuerhebesätzen hin. Dafür werden die vom kommunalen Finanzausgleich ausgehenden Anreizeffekte auf die kommunale Hebesatzwahl...
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that increased mobility of production factors will pose a severe threat to redistribution possibility is less acute than it …
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This article contributes to a small body of literature that examines empirically the factors affecting the structure of state income taxes. We assume vote-maximizing politicians who are potentially influenced by information spillovers from other states in the spirit of yardstick competition. A...
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This paper analyzes the impact of international capital mobility on redistributive capital taxation and on lobbying activities by interest groups. It employs a model where different capital endowments lead to a conflict between households concerning their most preferred capital tax rate. Three...
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Many theoretical models show that redistribution causes low growth or capital outflows even though empirically … redistribution and growth are often found to be positively associated across countries. This paper argues that tax competition and … the danger of capital outflows leads optimizing governments to pursue high growth, no redistribution policies in …
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This paper uses a new economic geography model to analyze tax competition between two countries trying to attract internationally mobile capital. Each government may levy a source tax on capital and a lump sum tax on fixed labor. If industry is concentrated in one of the countries, the analysis...
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Mobility across countries is often suspected to affect the coexistence of different social insurance systems. A wide variety of social protection systems exist within the EU. Some are of Beveridgean inspiration (with universal and more or less flat benefits), while others are mainly Bismarckian...
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