ECONOMICS:
A World of Opportunity

Abstracts of Working Papers January 2005 - December 2005

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#05-001 -- John Burbidge

"Tax Competition with Heterogeneous Firms"

(with Katherine Cuff and John Leach, McMaster University)

Abstract:

A model of tax competition in which firms earn rents is described. The size of these rents, coupled with the degree to which the firms are foreign-owned, determine the equilibrium tax rates. The existence of rents significantly alters some generally accepted results involving the possibility of a Pareto-improving common tax rate and the underprovision of publicly provided goods.

 

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