Recent work has started to analyze the choice of international commodity tax base under conditions of imperfect competition. This paper focuses on the effects of changing levels of trade barriers in a model where firms engage in duopoly competition and governments set commodity taxes...

Recent work has started to analyze the choice of international commodity tax base under conditions of imperfect competition. This paper focuses on the effects of changing levels of trade barriers in a model where firms engage in duopoly competition and governments set commodity taxes...

The paper employs a standard model of dynamic price competition to study how international principles of value-added taxation affect the stability of collusive agreements when producers in an international duopoly agree not to export into each other's home market. If costs of production are...

This paper studies non-cooperative commodity taxation in a trade model with imperfect competition and trade costs. Nationally optimal tax policy simultaneously tries to correct the domestic distortion from imperfect competition and to shift rents to the home country.

The paper analyses optimal taxation of corporate profits when governments can choose both the rate and the base of the corporation tax, but are constrained to collect a given amount of corporate tax revenue. In a standard two-period model of investment and international mobility of portfolio...

This paper analyzes the implications for the national provision of public inputs when profit sharing in multinational enterprises is a relevant constraint for tax policy. The analysis finds that under an investment-neutral corporation tax public inputs will be unambiguously underprovided in the...

Newspapers are two-sided platforms that sell their product both to readers and advertisers. Media firms in general, and newspapers in particular, are considered important providers of information, culture and language in most countries. Newspapers are therefore given preferential tax treatment....

A well known result in the tax competition literature is that tax rates are set too low in the Nash equilibrium to finance an efficient level of public consumption goods. In this model we introduce international spillovers in public goods provision and show that such spillovers reduce, and in...

A multinational firm sets the price that applies to intra- firm trade between the firm=A5s affiliates at a central level, but delegates decisions about national prices (or quantities) to national affiliates. When these affiliates encounter competition, it is shown that delegation of authority...

This paper attempts to analyze how the government from a social point of view should handle firms that demand preferential tax treatment on grounds of being internationally mobile. A revelation mechanism is constructed taking into account that migration decisions by firms have negative fiscal...