Economists have been concerned that sovereign communities may distort environmental policies to attract mobile capital. This paper provides something of a challenge to this idea. It does so by extending the model of Oates and Schwab (1988) to allow the supply of capital to a state, whether...

This paper studies how transport infrastructure investments affect a bidding war for a firm between two asymmetric countries within a region in a context of imperfect competition, where transport infrastructure investments play the role of a global public good, leading to a reduction in the unit...