We reconsider the effects of long-run economic growth on relative factor prices across cones of specialization. We model economic growth as exogenous technical change. Allowing for capital biased technical change with a sector bias and for endogenous commodity prices, we find that economic...

This paper addresses the question whether increased mobility of capital enhances public-sector modernisation. Public-sector modernisation is modelled as the accumulation of knowledge (or another accumulated production factor) that serves as an input in the government's production of a...

Is tax competition good for economic growth? The paper addresses this question by means of a simple model of endogenous growth. There are many small jurisdictions in a large federation and individual governments benevolently maximise the welfare of immobile residents. Investment is costly:...

This note discusses the comparative dynamic analysis in "Fiscal competition in space and time" by David Wildas in (Journal of Public Economics, Vol. 87, 2003) from a technical point of view. -- dynamic tax competition ; imperfect capital mobility ; comparative dynamics ; Peano Theorem

This paper investigates the performance and efficiency of the public sector in 74 countries worldwide for the years 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2000. Similar to what is done in Afonso / Schuhknecht / Tanzi (2005, Public Choice), I calculate performance measures for various fields of government policy,...

Die ökonomische Globalisierung trifft vielfach auf unterschwelliges Mißbehagen, in letzter Zeit auch mehr und mehr auf organisierten Protest. Im Mittelpunkt steht dabei oft die Wahrnehmung, daß Globalisierung neben Gewinnern eben auch Verlierer produziert, und zwar sowohl im Verhältnis...