The aim of this paper is to test the presence of strategic interactions in government spending on Research and Development (R&D), among EU-15 countries. We add to the literature on public choice strategic interactions in general, and to work on R&D spending in particular. We take account of...

We analyze voluntary coalition formation using a unique panel data for 1,056 municipalities in the French region of Brittany between 1995 and 2002. We use a control function approach to develop a binary discrete choice model with spatial interactions. We find that a municipality's decision to...

[eng] The main determinant of all forms of local taxation in France between 1993 and 2006 was the cooperation between municipalities (communes) known as “intercommunality” (intercommunalité). First, a municipality’s membership in a Public Intermunicipal Cooperation Body (Établissement...

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...

This article aims at analysing simultaneously three potential determinants of local tax setting by the French departments: the tax rate choices by the neighbouring departments, demographic and economic local features, and some political determinants, especially the degree of political...

L'objectif de cet article est de tester économétriquement l'existence d'interactions spatiales entre les choix d'imposition des départements français de métropole. Pour cela, un modèle de choix fiscal avec auto-régression spatiale est spécifié pour estimer la pente de la fonction de...