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We investigate competition for FDI within a region when a foreign multinational firm can profitably exploit differences … targeted tax competition may lead to higher welfare for the region as a whole than lump-sum subsidies when the difference in … statutory corporate tax rates and/or their average is high enough. Tax competition is also preferable from an efficiency point …
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This paper analyses the development of the ratio of corporate taxes to wage taxes using a simple political economy model with internationally mobile and immobile firms. Among other results, our model predicts that countries reduce their corporate tax rate, relative to the wage tax, either when...
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rate of the business tax. Tax competition is identified by means of instrumental variables techniques. Despite significant … competition effects between local neighbors, where tax rates are strategic complements, jurisdictions are found to have some … interjurisdictional competition. …
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This article provides a possible explanation for the heterogeneity of tax reaction functions under tax competition. In …
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) in West Germany. Taking into account possible competition effects, tax rates are found to be positively related to the …
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rate of the business tax. Tax competition is identified by means of instrumental variables techniques. Despite significant … competition effects between local neighbors, where tax rates are strategic complements, jurisdictions are found to have some … interjurisdictional competition …
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This paper addresses two long-standing positive questions in public finance: 1) Why is the property tax, despite widespread popular complaints against its fairness, the almost exclusive tax instrument used by local governments; and 2) why do we consistently observe higher levels of governments...
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