Economic integration and redistribuitive taxation

Andreas Haufler, Alexander Klemm and Guttorm Schejederup

Discussion Papers in Economics from University of Munich, Department of Economics

Abstract: We set up a simple political economy model where economic integration raises the profitability of multinational firms. In this setting redistributive taxation may rise following economic integration, if the effects of the widened income gap dominate the higher excess burden of the tax.

Keywords: redistributive taxation; profit shifting (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 H20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-04
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