We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number andthe location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases whentrade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production intoa single country, which is likely to be the...

We develop a model of commodity tax competition with monopolistically competitive internationallymobile firms, transport costs, and asymmetric country sizes. We investigate the impacts of noncooperativetax setting, as well as of tax harmonization and changes in the tax principle, in both...