Mobility may undermine local income redistribution in federal systems, because rich taxpayers can evade high taxes by moving to low tax jurisdictions. By analyzing a model of local income redistribution with endogenous voting, income heterogeneity and an exogenously given degree of mobility we focus explicitly on the link between redistribution...

We test for the state interdependence of gasoline and cigarette taxation in the US (1975-2006). We estimate a tax reaction function, and find that state interdependence is due solely to yardstick competition, since any interaction disappears completely in the case of states with lame duck governors. This result holds for...

The standard model of strategic tax competition assumes that government policymakers are perfectly benevolent. We depart from this assumption by allowing policymakers to be influenced by the rent-seeking behavior of businesses. Campaign contributions may affect tax competition and enhance or retard the mobility of capital across jurisdictions. Based on a...

The purpose of this paper is to study toll and investment competition along a serial transport corridor competition allowing for partial cooperation between regional governments. Partial cooperation is modeled as a Nash bargaining problem with endogenous disagreement points. We show that the bargaining approach to partial cooperation implies lower tolls...

L’any 2008, la despesa pública total en justícia a Catalunya per part de la Generalitat de Catalunya i l’administració central va ser de 635.839 milions d’euros, xifra que suposa el 0,31% del PIB català i 86 euros per habitant. D’aquests, 15 provenen de l’Estat i 71 de la Generalitat. Així...

Espanya és el país de l’OCDE on més ha crescut la població estrangera en la darrera dècada, passant de l’1,6% de la població en 1998 fins al 13,8% en 2009. A partir de l’evidència que les taxes d’atur dels immigrants superen les dels treballadors autòctons i que aquestes diferències es...