The main purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of fiscal cooperation on local taxation in a decentralized country, using the French experience in urban municipalities. We estimate a model of tax setting for local business tax using spatial and dynamic econometric techniques, for the...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the impact of local taxation on property prices in an urban French context, using data on property taxation and real estate transactions, over the period 1994-2004. Our empirical methodology pairs transactions in the same spatial environments to estimate...

The main purpose of this paper is to test the existence of a taxable agglomeration rent in the French local tax setting by taking account the tax interactions among the urban jurisdictions. After presenting a simple economic geography model with fiscal interactions, we estimate a model of tax...

Quel est le rôle de l'intercommunalité dans la fiscalité directe locale ? Afin de répondre à cette question, nous analysons dans cet article, les niveaux d'imposition des quatre impôts directs locaux en fonction de leur appartenance aux différentes catégories de groupements...

The main purpose of this paper is to assess the effects of fiscal cooperation on local taxation in a decentralized country, using the French experience. We estimate a model of tax setting for local business tax using spatial and dynamic econometric techniques, for the period 1993-2003. We find...

In this paper, we examine the role of public capital in regional growth in France. Two main questions are addressed: (i) its effect on regional growth; (ii) its role in reducing disparities between regions. After building regional series of public and private capital, we estimate production...

The objective of this paper is to apply different welfare approaches to the canonical model developed by Krugman, with the aim of comparing the only two possible market outcomes, i.e. agglomeration and dispersion. More precisely, we use the potential Pareto improvement criteria, as well as the...

This paper aims to determine if central authorities can favour the location of some economic activities in periphery areas. In order to do it, we build a theoretical framework close to the Krugman and Venables? one [1995], explicitly introducing regional policy of a central authority. We show...