various reasons for local government policy interactions, including fiscal competition, bidding for firms, yardstick … competition, expenditure spillovers, and Tiebout sorting. We discuss theoretically what parameters should be estimated to … determine the reason for competition among local governments. We emphasize how the policy outcomes emerging from this …

The paper shows that interjurisdictional competition for mobile factors of production forces the government to raise ….g. user charges, a Leviathan may be tamed by interjurisdictional competition whereas this is not necessarily true in the case …

In this paper we investigate tax/subsidy competition for FDI between countries of different size when a domestic firm … policy competition between the two governments seeking to attract FDI. We show that the country hosting the incumbent always … welfare-maximizer location. Finally, an efficiency-enhancing role of policy competition may only arise when the domestic …

on existing theories of competition in markets with adverse selection. -- Asymmetric information ; competition ; adverse …

giving more to all entrepreneurs. In equilibrium, competition for the best entrepreneurs forces intermediaries to offer …. Competition among financial intermediaries always forces them to fund projects with negative expected returns both from a private … scale. The three main features of our framework (competition, adverse selection, and limited liability) are necessary to get …

Our paper extends the capital tax competition literature by incorporating heterogeneous capital and agglomeration. Our … model nests the standard tax competition model as well as the special case in which there is agglomeration but no firm …/capital heterogeneity and the opposite case, firm heterogeneity with no agglomeration. We build on the existing tax competition literature …