Models of international tax competition typically assume the existence of a benevolent government. This paper presents a model which integrates the view of government as source of inefficiency with an analysis of distorting taxes on capital investment, savings and labor income in a common...

Die Arbeit untersucht die Wohlfahrtswirkungen des internationalen Steuerwettbewerbs sowie die Notwendigkeit und Möglichkeit einer Koordination der Steuersysteme im Bereich der direkten Steuern. Hierzu wird der Zusammenhang zwischen den Rahmenbedingungen, unter denen ein Steuerwettbewerb...

The United States implements much of its social policy through the income tax laws. The Code is rife with tax expenditures for education, housing, community economic development, retirement savings, and health care to name a few. But the IRS is not an agency with expertise in any of these areas...

We provide a quantitative assessment of the welfare cost of tax competition or, equivalently, the welfare benefit of international tax policy cooperation. We use a simple multi-country general equilibrium model of a world economy, in which there are two types of cross-country spillovers: the...