Looking at the Belgian federation, where 10% of the working population commutes across the borders of three small regions, a case can be made for studying commuting flows in a federal constellation. In this paper, commuting is introduced to a federal setting where an ad valorem residence based...

In this paper, commuting is introduced to a federal economy where benevolent lower-level (state) governments levy an ad valorem tax on labour income. This results in inefficiently low levels of taxation, even when households as a whole do not migrate. Indeed, rather than attracting more workers...

In this paper, we model a federal economy where perfectly mobile labour supply is taxed on an ad valorem basis by the federal as well as lower-level (state) governments. We find that either under- or overtaxation occurs, under similar conditions as in Keen and Kotsogiannis (2002, 2004). However,...

Devolving tax authority to lower-level jurisdictions in a federation is often argued to better align the actions of politicians with the wishes of voters. In this paper, we derive the conditions for tax autonomy to bring about local growth-enhancing policies - as the fiscal incentives approach...

In this paper, commuting is introduced to a federal setting where an ad valorem residence based tax on labour income is decentralised. Under full decentralisation, this has lower-level (state) governments set inefficiently low taxes, even when households as a whole do not migrate. The motive of...