This paper surveys the nexus between tax competition and the fiscal constitution. We distinguish various approaches to competition between jurisdictions and provide a critique of evolutionary approaches to 'systems competition'. In the main part of the paper, a simple model of horizontal tax...

In the present paper, 1 analyse the competitive behaviour of benevolent governments in the presence of (capital) income tax evasion when information exchange is not possible. My approach is to introduce a cost of evasion function into an otherwise standard tax competition model and to explore...

Main description: Das Buch beinhaltet sieben Abhandlungen theoretischer und grundlegender Natur zu verschiedenen Aspekten öffentlicher Finanzen sowie deren sozialpolitischen Auswirkungen. -- Die ersten drei Beiträge befassen sich mit einer (optimalen) föderalen Finanzverfassung. Ausgehend von...