Why do capital taxes still exist in an integrated world economy? When capital is perfectly mobile across countries and labour is fixed, a source-based tax on capital both reduces and redistributes world income. In a simple general equilibrium model we show that under plausible circumstances...

Edlefsen [3] has shown that a phenomenon of great similarity to the strong LeChatelier principle can be established when altering the feasible set of an optimizing agent by suitably replacing existing constraints rather than adding new ones. Here it was demonstrated that essentially the same...

Based on the assumption that the sectoral income distributions follow a Pareto distribution, a simple approximation to the aggregate Gini coefficient for a two-sector economy was developed which works on a minimum of information. As a matter of fact, merely the sectoral Gini coefficients, the...

When capital is perfectly mobile across countries and labour is fixed, a source-based tax on capital both reduces and redistributes world income. We show that under plausible circumstances there always exists a country that benefits from introducing such a tax.