The purpose of this article is to deal with the theoretical funding, the consequences and the empirical relevance of strategic tax interactions among governments. Theoretically, tax competition and yardstick competition models may explain the existence of horizontal interactions namely among...

The purpose of this paper deals with recent reforms related to decentralization in Spain over the recent period. Focusing on regional government (the so called Comunidades Autónomas, CCAAs), we show that these reforms aim at reducing the existing fiscal vertical imbalance between regional...

We study the business tax ("taxe professionnelle") behavior of the intermediate level (department) of local government in France and test in the same model the two hypotheses that department tax rates are explained by upper tier (region) tax rates and by tax rates chosen by other departments. We...

We examine the effects of tax base sharing on the growth path of an economy in which central and regional governments provide heterogeneous educational services (general and specific training) which increase capital productivity. Our focus is the non co-operative game between two overlapping...

[fre] Cet article présente tout d'abord les principaux résultats théoriques de la concurrence entre collectivités locales pour attirer ou retenir des entreprises. L'accent est mis sur le cadre institutionnel français qui se caractérise par un morcellement de la carte administrative...

[eng] The adoption of the common currency within a context of European fiscal systems diversity could lead to fierce tax competition. Capital income taxation is at stake. The fiscal gap on the corporate income tax between the European country is measured with the cost of capital concept. We find...

[eng] Tax competition and local government cooperation Thierry Madiès, This paper starts with a survey of major results concerning the effects of tax competition on the supply of local public goods and equilibrium tax rates. We then raise the issue of tax cooperation amongst local governments...

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