Browsing Department of Economics by Subject "Asymmetric equilibrium"

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    • Public Good Differentiation and the Intensity of Tax Competition 
      Zissimos, Ben; Wooders, Myrna (Vanderbilt University, 2007)
      We show that, in a setting where tax competition promotes efficiency, variation in the extent to which firms can use public goods to reduce costs brings about a reduction in the intensity of tax competition. This in turn ...
    • Relaxing Tax Competition through Public Good Differentiation 
      Zissimos, Ben; Wooders, Myrna H. (Vanderbilt University, 2006)
      This paper argues that, because governments are able to relax tax competition through public good differentiation, traditionally high-tax countries have continued to set taxes at a relatively high rate even as markets have ...