Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure

Arbeitspapier

A structural model of entry and fiscal policy is presented. It shows that taxation of variable production costs can increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model?s test is based on a unique nationwide fiscal experiment. We study the effects of the 1869 stamped paper tax reform act on the market for daily newspapers in the Netherlands. The econometric analysis uses data on when and where the newspapers existed and were introduced together with demographic census data from 1859 and 1869. The results confirm the model?s predictions and show how taxation affects strategic business location decisions.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 499

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Entertainment; Media ; Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics: Industrial Structure and Structural Change; Industrial Price Indices ; Duration Analysis; Optimal Timing Strategies ; Oligopoly and Other Imperfect Markets ; Market Structure, Pricing, and Design: Oligopoly and Other Forms of Market Imperfection
• Thema: quasi-experiment ; industrial organization ; fiscal policy ; cities ; Steuerpolitik ; Industrieökonomik ; Innovation ; Standortwahl ; Markteintritt ; Zeitung ; Stadt ; Schätzung ; Theorie ; Niederlande

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Pfann, Gerard A. ; van Kranenburg, Hans
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2002

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/21441
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:45 MEZ