The Supply of Foreign Direct Investment Incentives: Subsidy Competition in an Oligopolistic Framework

Tomáš Havránek ()

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Abstract: This paper examines the microeconomic motivation of governments to provide tax incentives for foreign direct investment. Author applies the classical models of oligopoly to subsidy competition, endogenousing investment incentives, but leaving tax rates exogenous. According to the conventional wisdom, subsidy competition leads to overprovision of incentives. This paper suggests that, in the oligopolistic framework, supranational coordination can either decrease or increase the supply of subsidies. Further, in the setting of subsidy regulation, the host country's corporate income tax rate has an ambiguous effect on the provision of incentives.

Keywords: Investment incentives; Subsidy competition; Productivity spillovers; Oligopoly; Foreign direct investment; Multinational corporations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 H25 F21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2008-09-26
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Journal Article: THE SUPPLY OF FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT INCENTIVES: SUBSIDY COMPETITION IN AN OLIGOPOLISTIC FRAMEWORK (2009)
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