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...

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...

In this paper, the author analyzes the behavior of local governments in capital taxation when the financial choices in terms of the quality of public goods are made done by a central planner. More specifically, he asks the question of whether a local government has an interest in taxing the...

In this paper, the authors analyze the behavior of local governments on capital taxation when the financial choices in terms of a public good quality are done by a central planner. More specifically, they ask the question whether a local government has an interest to tax the mobile factor in...

We provide a quantitative assessment of the welfare cost of tax competition or, equivalently, the welfare benefit of international tax policy cooperation. We use a simple multi-country general equilibrium model of a world economy, in which there are two types of cross-country spillovers: the...

It is a standard prediction in the literature on tax competition that mobility of factors between jurisdictions causes local governments to choose too low tax rates and to underprovide public goods. This paper shows circumstances when the prediction may be false. The prediction may be false when...

This paper models the optimal division of public goods provision between central and regional governments in an economy with interregional tax competition. Regional provision is inefficient because governments compete for scarce capital by lowering their capital taxes and public good levels to...

A rather neglected issue in the tax competition literature is the dependence of equilibrium outcomes on the presence of firms and shoppers (two-sided markets). Making use of a model of vertical and horizontal differentiation, within which jurisdictions compete by providing public goods and...