This paper analyzes the impact of tax competition between two countries of unequal per-capita capital endownments on tax rates and efficiency when distorting wage, residence-based and source-based capital taxes (or any combination of two instruments) are available for governments. The national...

This paper examines capital tax competition in the presence of an interstate transfer policy without federal commitment. Lack of commitment implies that tax policy is chosen prior to federal transfers. The paper s main result is that ex-post federal policy internalizes horizontal fiscal...

We develop a model of capital income tax competition where taxation can discriminate between different kinds of capital income (corporate income, interest income, and dividends) and various rules of international taxation can be applied. The firms' capital structures and the nature of the...

Die Arbeit untersucht die Wohlfahrtswirkungen des internationalen Steuerwettbewerbs sowie die Notwendigkeit und Möglichkeit einer Koordination der Steuersysteme im Bereich der direkten Steuern. Hierzu wird der Zusammenhang zwischen den Rahmenbedingungen, unter denen ein Steuerwettbewerb...