This paper proposes a methodology to measure spatial effects of roads and local authorities' seats in a diffusion of business activity, which usually follows the distance decay patterns, from core to periphery. Regional development policy, pursued by regional authorities, directed to local units...

The traditional theory of international tax competition for production factors or any of its expansions give neither a satisfactory explanation of the problem that would find confirmation in empirical data nor normative solutions for the shape of the optimal tax system. It seems that such a...

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