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. Author applies the classical models of oligopoly to subsidy competition, endogenousing investment incentives, but leaving tax … rates exogenous. According to the conventional wisdom, subsidy competition leads to overprovision of incentives. This paper … subsidies. Further, in the setting of subsidy regulation, the host country's corporate income tax rate has an ambiguous effect …
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In this paper, we analyse the role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition. Our primary result is that increasing … mobility intensifies tax competition, it weakens subsidy competition. The resulting fall in the governments' subsidy payments … in which two governments are first engaged in subsidy competition and thereafter in tax competition, and firms locate and …
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The objective of this paper is to empirically assess the recently introduced models of subsidy competition based on the … ; Investment incentives ; Foreign direct investment ; Subsidy competition …
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We set up a model of generalised oligopoly where two countries of different size compete for an exogenous, but variable, number of identical firms. The model combines a desire by national governments to attract internationally mobile firms with the existence of location rents that arise even in...
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In this paper, we analyse the role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition. Our primary result is that increasing … mobility intensi.es tax competition, it weakens subsidy competition. The resulting fall in the governments' subsidy payments … governments are first engaged in subsidy competition and thereafter in tax competition, and firms locate and potentially relocate …
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regional governments have only a lump-sum profit tax (subsidy) at their disposal, but face exogenous and identical transport … costs for imports, then both countries will always offer to subsidize the firm. Furthermore, the maximum subsidy is greater …
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We develop a 2×2×2 model with the following features: (1) one sector is perfectly competitive while the other is oligopolistic; (2) one country has unemployment while the other attains full employment; (3) oligopolists move internationally; and (4) the ownership of each oligopolist is...
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We investigate competition for FDI within a region when a foreign multinational firm can profitably exploit differences in statutory corporate tax rates by shifting taxable profits to lower-tax jurisdictions. In such framework we show that targeted tax competition may lead to higher welfare for...
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In this paper, we analyse the role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition. Our primary result is that increasing … mobility intensifies tax competition, it weakens subsidy competition. The resulting fall in the governments' subsidy payments … in which two governments are first engaged in subsidy competition and thereafter in tax competition, and firms locate and …
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