Full movement from the destination principle to the origin principle would lead to changes in VAT revenues in EU countries. Hence a clearing mechanism is necessary to rectify such imbalances. To estimate the relevance of VAT evasion this study quantifies the annual amounts of hypothetical VAT...

This essay critically revisits the roles and influences of tax havens in the world economy. It combines various messages of available studies in one scheme, and uses various data sources to document regularities regarding multinational firms, financial assets, and other relevant information for...

This paper analyses non-cooperative provision of public consumption goods and public production factors. Contrary to previous literature, a number of situations is identified where public consumption goods are oversupplied and public production factors are undersupplied. With source and...

In Germany, medium-term financial planning (Mifrifi) was introduced at the end of the sixties. This study scrutinizes the German federal government's experience of more than thirty years of financial planning. The paper begins by exploring the potential normative and political-economic driving...

We analyze the welfare consequences of tax coordination agreements that cover taxes on mobile capital and on immobile labor. In doing so, we take into account two important institutional details. First, we incorporate decentralized wage bargaining, giving rise to involuntary unemployment....

Complete descriptions of Cournot-Nash equilibria in a model with large and asymmetric countries and international mobile capital are given. These countries have two tax instruments at their disposal. The possibility is shown that if the more populated country exports capital, a mutually...

Models of capital tax competition typically assume that countries have identical per-capita endowments. This paper presents a model with endogenous capital and labor supply where countries are unequal, and shows that countries do not necessarily engage in wasteful tax competition, in the sense...

This paper explores the optimal international tax policy of a small open economy with inbound and outbound flows of both portfolio and direct investment. Only three independent conditions determine the optimal rates of six taxes, implying that there are no unique values of optimal tax rates. For...

This paper analyzes the consequences of international capital mobility for national social-transfer policy and unemployment in a model with workers of different skill and income levels. Social transfers may cause unemployment of low-skilled workers if the transfer level exceeds their potential...

This paper analyzes tax competition for mobile capital among jurisdictions where capital is employed by the subsidiaries of a unitary firm. Equity capital of the unitary firm is taxed under a formula apportionment scheme, and each jurisdiction has the leeway to choose its desired mix of...