This paper investigates the impacts of capital mobility and tax competition in a setting with imperfect matching between firms and workers. The small country always gains and the large country always loses from tax competition, thus implying tax competition leads to redistribution from the large...

This paper examines the pricing strategy of a developer facing potential clients heterogeneous in income. Two-part pricing and second degree discriminatory pricing strategies are characterized. Our results include the fact that the developer chooses either to charge a positive entry fee and a...

Our objective is twofold. First, we show why there is a spatial question in economic theory - why a free competitive market is unable to cope with agglomeration and regional imbalance in the absence of market distortions. Second, using a new and simple model, we review what has been accomplished...

We show that a market involving a handful of large-scale firms and a myriad of small-scale firms may give rise to different types of market structure, ranging from monopoly or oligopoly to monopolistic competition through new types of market structure. In particular, we find conditions under...