During the late nineteenth century there was a wave of promotions of American companies on the London Stock Exchange, which have been described as 'free-standing'. The British company promoter, H. Osborne O'Hagan, is often regarded as the first mover in these promotions, a view based on his...

As substate policy makers design economic development strategies and respond to structural changes in their economic base, it is important to understand effects on the local sales tax. Local sales taxes are modeled here as arising from three sources: resident demand, taxable business-to-business...