Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82089 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
EPRU Working Paper Series No. 2004-02
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
This paper proposes a unifying framework for theories of capital tax competition, and surveys and synthesizes the literature within this framework. The synthesis covers various standard tax competition models, models allowing for leviathan governments and democratic elections, in addition more recent contributions to the literature such as cross hauling of investment and models allowing for agglomeration forces to be associated with capital mobility. The paper illustrates under which assumptions the race to the bottom in tax rates results from increasing capital mobility, and when capital tax rates can be expected to increase as a result of higher capital mobility.
Subjects: 
tax competition
capital taxation
capital mobility
JEL: 
H20
F2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
374.23 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.