This paper is a study of the influence of economic and political conditions on the results of incumbent parties' candidates in local elections in France. The large sample used covers 586 towns and two elections (2001 and 2008). It explicitly deals with the specificities induced by the tworound...

[eng] The Role of Interactions in the Tax Choices of the French Cities The aim of this article is to explain the French agglomerations tax choices and more particularly the role of horizontal and vertical tax interactions in the choice of their local business tax. Initially, we build a model of...

In this article, we first focus on a descriptive analysis of the office market in the city of Lille. Then we estimate three major equations explaining supply, demand and rental price adjustments. We observe that risky promotion projects have been replaced by pre-leases. As a consequence, new...

The main purpose of this paper is to assess the existence of tax interdependencies among French local tax setting by taking into account the agglomeration forces. A model of tax setting for the local business tax is estimated using spatial econometrics techniques for 2002. First, it is shown...

This paper tests the existence of strategic interactions among municipalities, based on a panel of Belgian local tax rates from 1985 to 2004. A special emphasis is put on the role of the interregional differences in Belgium. Our results partly confirm previous findings for Belgium suggesting...