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Title: Competing in Taxes and Investment under Fiscal Equalization

Author(s): Jean J.G. Hindriks, Susana Peralta and Shlomo Weber

Publication Date: August 2007

Keyword(s): equalization, fiscal, fiscal federalism, heterogeneous regions and public investments

Programme Area(s): Public Economics

Abstract: The paper considers a model of federation with two heterogeneous regions that try to attract the capital by competing in capital income taxes and public investment that enhance the productivity of capital. Regions' choices determine allocation of capital across the regions and their revenues under a tax sharing scheme. This framework allows for the examination of different approaches to fiscal equalization schemes (Boadway and Flatters, 1982, and Weingast, 2006). We show that tax competition distorts (downwards) public investments and that the equalization grants discourage public investments with a little effect on equilibrium taxes. However, the equalization schemes remain beneficial not only for the federation and, under a low degree of regional asymmetry, also for each region.

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Hindriks, J, Peralta, S and Weber, S. 2007. 'Competing in Taxes and Investment under Fiscal Equalization'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=6431