A note on tax competition and public input provision
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Governments that depend on taxes on mobile capital are expected to provide inefficient public service, illustrating that tax competition often results in underprovision. It is further shown that firm mobility is just as significant when considering how tax competition could give rise to the underprovision of local public inputs. The latter view is further supported by the fact that, since firms move across jurisdictions primarily to maximize their profitability, the possibility of overprovision of public inputs in such a scenario is effectively removed.
Publication Name: Regional Science & Urban Economics
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0166-0462
Year: 1998
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Population growth and its distribution between cities: positive and normative aspects
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The positive and normative aspects of urban population partition between cities and its evolution through time are investigated. The different allocation regimes on the one hand and different elasticities of substitution between housing and differentiated products on the other, affecting the characteristics of city - size distribution is investigated at the positive level, while the potential sources of market failures and their policy implications is investigated on the normative level.
Publication Name: Regional Science & Urban Economics
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0166-0462
Year: 2004
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Coordination of capital taxation among asymmetric countries
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A study conducted to analyze the impact of capital tax competition on capital mobility and immobile labor is presented.
Publication Name: Regional Science & Urban Economics
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0166-0462
Year: 2006
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