We study the choice of club membership, when member-countries national governments set their tax policies non …-cooperatively. Federal policy (in the form of club membership) has a higher constitutional status than national policies (in the form of … show that equilibrium membership decreases with any factors that generate Nash-type inefficiencies; growing capital …

We study the choice of club membership, when member-countries' national governments set their tax policies non …-cooperatively. Federal policy (in the form of club membership) has a higher constitutional status than national policies (in the form of … show that equilibrium membership decreases with any factors that generate Nash-type inefficiencies; growing capital …

-club. Seen through the lens of club goods theory, the EU is a club of nations, each of which can be interpreted as itself a club … in membership size are free to choose the terms on which they admit members, and evaluate it from the point of view of …

sind. Der gewählte Analyseansatz greift auf positive und normative Hinweise der Club Theorie zurück. Es wird zunächst … draws on positive and normative hints from club theory. The paper provides an analytical approach to determine ex-ante the …