Arbeitspapier
Do governments tax agglomeration rents?
Using the German local business tax as a testing ground, we empirically investigate the impact of firm agglomeration on municipal tax setting behavior. The analysis exploits a rich data source on the population of German firms to construct detailed measures for the communities' agglomeration characteristics. The findings indicate that urbanization and localization economies exert a positive impact on the jurisdictional tax rate choice which confirms predictions of the theoretical New Economic Geography (NEG) literature. Further analysis suggests a qualification of the NEG argument by showing that a municipality's potential to tax agglomeration rents depends on its firm and industry agglomeration relative to neighboring communities. To account for potential endogeneity problems, our analysis exploits long-lagged population and infrastructure variables as instruments for the agglomeration measures.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2976
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
- Thema
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agglomeration rents
corporate taxation
regional differentiation
Gemeindesteuer
Gewerbesteuer
Steuertarif
Agglomerationseffekt
Regionale Konzentration
Lokalisationseffekt
Deutschland
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Koh, Hyun-Ju
Riedel, Nadine
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
- (wo)
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Munich
- (wann)
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2010
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Koh, Hyun-Ju
- Riedel, Nadine
- Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
Entstanden
- 2010