This article, considering relative performance vs. market share delegation in a vertically related market, shows how the order of firms' move and the type of delegation contract would affect the input-pricing decision of the upstream monopolist and examines which delegation contract is a...

This paper studies the provision of public inputs in a federal system with unit taxation on labor. We use a model with vertical tax and expenditure externalities to analyze the e¢ ciency of equilibria under di¤erent settings, particularly Nash and Stackelberg equilibria. Our results discuss...

Besley and Rosen (1998) were the first authors to empirically estimate the presence of vertical tax externalities. They tested it on gasoline and tobacco unitary taxes. However, they did not take into account the difference in cost of living across states: high cost areas pay less in real terms...

The aim of this paper is to determine to what extent and how federal taxes affect local tax decisions. Testing the impact of an increase in the federal tax on horizontal tax competition with Canada-US data for 1984--1994, we find evidence that an increase in federal tax affects horizontal tax...

This article exploits a panel data set from 18 Indian states over the period between 1993–1994 and 2009–2010 and identifies a set of parameters significantly affecting stamp duty revenue collection in the states. It turns out that among all the parameters, the per capita income of...

This paper studies the provision of public inputs in a federal system. A vertical tax externality is also considered in a simple general equilibrium model used to analyze the efficiency of equilibria under different scenarios. The results show that the state provision of public inputs may affect...