This paper uses a Finnish policy intervention to study tax competition among local governments. Changes in the statutory lower limits to the property tax rates are used as a source of exogenous variation to estimate the responses of municipalities to tax rates in their neighbouring...

This paper considers some of the issues and difficulties relating to the use of spatial paneldata regression in prediction, illustrated by the effects of mass immigration on wages andincome levels in local authority areas of Great Britain. Motivated by contemporary urbaneconomics theory, and...