Local Fiscal Strategy to Retain Heterogeneous Firms
This paper is about the strategy of retaining unobservably heterogeneous firms attracted by unobservably valued outside alternatives. We prove that differentiating taxation and public good fiscal packages within one's own locale dominates offering the same packages to all firms. We rationalize the full range of observed practice by considering more than one type of firm, more than one type of fiscal instrument, and all kinds of utility in alternative locations, under asymmetric information. Mobile agents can earn rents under some conditions, and immobile agents earn rents under others. Ways to minimize budgetary exposure in tax wars and effects on the composition of local economies are discussed. Copyright 2002 Blackwell Publishers
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2002
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Authors: | Kilkenny, Maureen ; Melkonyan, Tigran |
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Journal of Regional Science. - Wiley Blackwell, ISSN 0022-4146. - Vol. 42.2002, 4, p. 753-771
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Wiley Blackwell |
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