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Sectoral Structure and Entry Regulations

Messina, Julián - 2004

The sectoral allocation of labor differs considerably across developed economies, even in the presence of similar patterns of structural change. A general equilibrium model that captures the stylized facts of structural change is presented. In this framework, economy-wide barriers to entry...

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Country size and publicly provided goods

Staal, Klaas - 2006

This paper studies the equilibrium size of countries. Individuals in small countries have greater influence over the nature of political decision making while individuals in large countries have the advantage of more public goods and lower tax rates. The model implies that (i) there exists...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383037

Tax Competition and Tax Structure in Open Federal Economies : Evidence from OECD Countries with Implications for the European Union

Goodspeed, Timothy - 2008

Tax competition arguments suggest that a government that operate in an open economy (such as local governments) should not and will not rely on non-benefit taxes, such as the income tax. Yet we observe reliance on income taxes by local governments in many countries, and such reliance changes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089728

Tax competition and tax structure in open federal economies : evidence from OECD countries with implications for the European Union

Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 1999

Tax competition arguments suggest that governements that operate in an open economy (such as local governments) should not and will not rely on non-benefit taxes, such as the income tax. Yet we observe reliance on income taxes by local governments in many countries, and such reliance changes...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013428264

Tax competition and tax structure in open federal economies : evidence from OECD countries with implications for the European Union

Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 1999 - Revised: March, 1999

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The Influence of Globalization on Taxes and Social Policy - an Empirical Analysis for OECD Countries

Dreher, Axel - 2005

Using panel regression for the period 1970-2000 the paper analyzes whether globalization has influenced the OECD countries' social and overall spending as well as their tax rates on labor, consumption and capital. Accounting for potential endogeneity of the regressors, the results show that...

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Commodity Taxation and Regulatory Competition

Moriconi, Simone; Picard, Pierre M.; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2017

This paper studies theoretically and empirically competition in commodity taxation and product market regulation … taxes finance public goods, and product market regulation affects both the number of firms in the market and product … commodity taxation and product market regulation are interdependent policies. We find absence of strategic interaction in …

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Hotelling Tax Competition

Wooders, Myrna H.; Zissimos, Ben - 2021

This paper shows how competition among governments for mobile firms can bring about excessive differentiation in levels of taxation and public good provision. Hotelling's Principle of Minimum Differentiation is applied in the context of tax competition and shown to be invalid. Instead, when an...

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Country size and public good provision

Staal, Klaas - 2004

This paper studies the equilibrium size of countries. Individuals in smallcountries have greater influence over the nature of political decision mak-ing while individuals in large countries have the advantage of more publicgoods and lower tax rates. The model implies that (i) there exists...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334838

On cooperation in Musgravian models of externalities within a federation

Tulkens, Henry - 2002

Musgravian externalities, formulated and illustrated by Musgrave in a 1966 paper on social goods are seen in this paper as one form of the interactions that occur between the components of a federation. The original formal apparatus is first exposed briefly. In that context, it is then...

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