A central message of the tax competition literature is that independent governments engage
in wasteful competition for scarce capital through reductions in tax rates and public …

English summary: Lars P. Feld evaluates the economic arguments for or against tax
competition in a federal polity and summarizes the empirical evidence concerned with the …

This paper argues that long-run trends in geographic segregation are inconsistent with
models where residential choice depends solely on local public goods (the Tiebout …

Thorough and authoritative, Regional and Urban Economics and Economic Development:
Theory and Methods provides students with a sound approach to analyzing the economic …

In this paper we examine compensation schemes that prevent a threat of secession by any
of a country's regions. We prove that, under quite general assumptions on the distribution of …

City-country consolidation builds upon the Progressive tradition of favoring structural reform
of local governments. This volume looks at some important issues confronting contemporary …

IEA Benefits Tax bk.indb Page 1 The Benefits of Tax Competition Page 2 The Benefits of
Tax Competition RICHARD TEATHER The Institute of Economic Affairs Page 3 First …

We consider a political economy model of country whose citizens have heterogeneous
preferences for a national policy and some regions may contemplate a threat of secession …

Must the integration of markets be accompanied by the harmonization of societies'
institutions? We study a model of heterogenous individuals where a public good directly …

Coalition government formation in parliamentary democracies is the topic of a well-
established body of literature which dates back to seminal studies from the early 1960s. For …