This paper examines decentralized income redistribution in a federation with strategically competing regions and immobile as well as freely mobile households. The mobile households are altruistic toward the immobile households. The basic point of this paper can be stated as follows: the...

In this paper, we model a federal economy where perfectly mobile labour supply is taxed on an ad valorem basis by the federal as well as lower-level (state) governments. We find that either under- or overtaxation occurs, under similar conditions as in Keen and Kotsogiannis (2002, 2004). However,...