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Merger policy and tax competition
Haufler, Andreas; Schulte, Christian - 2007
In many situations governments have sector-specific tax and regulation policies at their disposal to influence the market outcome after a national or an international merger has taken place. In this paper we study the implications for merger policy when countries non-cooperatively deploy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264257
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Merger Policy and Tax Competition
Haufler, Andreas; Schulte, Christian - 2021
In many situations governments have sector-specific tax and regulation policies at their disposal to influence the market outcome after a national or an international merger has taken place. In this paper we study the implications for merger policy when countries non-cooperatively deploy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316665
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Mobile Tax Base as a Global Common
Konrad, Kai A. - 2021
If countries anticipate Bertrand competition in tax rates, they may expend effort that makes some of their tax payers less mobile or increases the mobility of tax payers elsewhere. I provide piecemeal evidence on what activities countries use. I analyse how such activities interact with Bertrand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316737
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Mobile tax base as a global common
Konrad, Kai A. - 2007
If countries anticipate Bertrand competition in tax rates, they may expend effort that makes some of their tax payers less mobile or increases the mobility of tax payers elsewhere. I provide piecemeal evidence on what activities countries use. I analyse how such activities interact with Bertrand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264247
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In praise of tax havens: international tax planning and foreign direct investment
Hong, Qing; Smart, Michael - 2007
capital and so facilitate investment. Both the welfare effects of and the optimal response to international tax planning are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264087
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Competition for firms in an oligopolistic industry: do firms or countries have to pay?
Haufler, Andreas; Wooton, Ian - 2007
even further. A range of trade costs is identified where economic integration raises the welfare of the small country, but … lowers welfare in the large country. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264114
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Intra-regional tax competition and economic geography
Hühnerbein, Ossip; Seidel, Tobias - 2007
the mobile factor. We find that intra-regional tax competition is detrimental from a welfare perspective and that tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264222
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Tax competition, relative performance and policy imitation
Wagener, Andreas - 2009
Rather than about absolute payoffs, governments in fiscal competition often seem to care about their performance relative to other governments. Moreover, they often appear to mimic policies observed elsewhere. We study such behaviour in a tax competition game with mobile capital à la...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277093
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Bidding for Industrial Plants : Does Winning a 'Million Dollar Plant' Increase Welfare?
Greenstone, Michael - 2003
the period before the opening). Property values may provide a summary measure of the net change in welfare, because the … reduces local residents' welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468854
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How Much Are the Poor Losing From Tax Competition?
Muñoz, Mathilde - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper quantifies the unequal welfare effects of tax competition. I derive the optimal tax and transfer schedules … a competition union rather than in a federal union decreases poorer individuals' welfare by up to -20 percent. In … contrast, the rich experience higher welfare in the tax competition equilibrium due to lower tax rates …
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