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
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: CESifo Working Paper ; No. 2976

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations: Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Thema
agglomeration rents
corporate taxation
regional differentiation
Gemeindesteuer
Gewerbesteuer
Steuertarif
Agglomerationseffekt
Regionale Konzentration
Lokalisationseffekt
Deutschland

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Koh, Hyun-Ju
Riedel, Nadine
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo)
(wo)
Munich
(wann)
2010

Handle
Letzte Aktualisierung
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

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