Global economic integration intensified tax competition and raised concerns about the resulting ""race to the bottom"", which could undermine public investment and social spending. The aim of this paper is to test predictions that (i) there is interdependence in CIT rate setting in Eastern...

Combines two disciplines together, regional and ecological economics. This book presents a way to understand ecological economic concerns from a regional perspective, and provides a mathematical tool to measure their interrelationships

This book develops a unified treatment of the income distribution–capital–value problems with respect to actual economies, and then gradually turns to the issues of effective demand and capitalist accumulation fluctuations from both political economy and economic policy perspectives. That...

This textbook offers an introduction to empirical regional economics, including a comprehensive and systematic overview of the fundamentals, history, development, and applications of economic base models. It not only provides a sound basis for regional economics and regional economic analysis,...