We develop a model in which states may choose to form coalitions to capture efficiency gains from policy coordination …. Joining a coalition entails setting the policy variable to maximize the coalitions' aggregate payoff at a Nash equilibrium …

provision of public goods and with it the welfare of all countries can be enhanced via tax coordination. Based on the standard … Zodrow-Mieszkowski-Wilson tax-competition model this paper analyses the conditions under which tax coordination by a group of … countries is self-enforcing. It is shown that there always exists a rather small stable tax coalition. For some subset of the …

provision of public goods and with it the wel- fare of all countries can be enhanced via tax coordination. Based on the standard … Zodrow-Mieszkowski-Wilson tax-competition model this paper analyses the con- ditions under which tax coordination by a group … of countries is self-enforcing. It is shown that there always exists a rather small stable tax coalition. For some subset …

messages, on their credibility and on actual play. We run an experiment in a three-player coordination game with Pareto ranked …

our model and experiments, introducing a coalition formation stage prior to making a contribution decision enables sorting …

may help to explain the current trend towards regionalism …

schemes in order to influence the government's choice on the level of provision of public goods. Using perfectly coalition …