Arbeitspapier

International Commodity Taxation Under Monopolistic Competition

We analyze non-cooperative commodity taxation in a symmetrictwo-country trade model characterized by monopolisticcompetition and international firm and capital mobility. In thissetting, taxes in one country affect foreign welfare through therelocation of mobile firms and through changes in the rentsaccruing to capital owners. With consumption-based taxation,these fiscal externalities exactly offset each other and the non-cooperativetax equilibrium is Pareto efficient. With production-basedtaxation, however, there is an additional externality on theforeign price level which leads non-cooperative tax rates toexceed their Pareto efficient levels.

Language
Englisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 529

Classification
Wirtschaft
Subject
tax competition
market imperfections
internationaltrade

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Haufler, Andreas
Pflüger, Michael
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(where)
Munich
(when)
2001

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Haufler, Andreas
  • Pflüger, Michael
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Time of origin

  • 2001

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