2014
DOI: 10.1628/001522114x681360
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The (Im)Possibility of Overprovision of Public Goods in Interjurisdictional Tax Competition

Abstract: We extend the classical tax-competition framework of Zodrow and Mieszkowski (1986) by modeling involuntary unemployment and by allowing for labor taxation as a second source of public funds. Even though the framework of the Zodrow-Mieszkowski model is extended into two dimensions, we are able to characterize the signs of both tax rates and the provision level of the public good: for a large class of production functions (including CES), tax competition is characterized by underprovision of public goods, and by… Show more

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