Arbeitspapier

Hotelling Tax Competition

This paper shows how competition among governments for mobile firms can bring about excessive differentiation in levels of taxation and public good provision. Hotelling's Principle of Minimum Differentiation is applied in the context of tax competition and shown to be invalid. Instead, when an equilibrium exists, differentiation of public good provision is maximized. Non-existence of equilibrium, which is possible, is a metaphor for intense tax competition. The paper also shows that, to some extent, perfect tax discrimination presents a solution to the existence problem created by Hotelling tax competition, but that the efficiency problem of Hotelling tax competition is exacerbated.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 932

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
hotelling
limit tax
perfect tax discrimination
tax competion

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Wooders, Myrna
Zissimos, Ben
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2003

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Wooders, Myrna
  • Zissimos, Ben
  • Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)

Entstanden

  • 2003

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