International Tax Competition in the Global Economy

Boris Korneychuk ()
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Boris Korneychuk: National Research University Higher School of Economics, Postal: Ulitsa Soyuza Pechatnikov, 16, 190008, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Journal of Economic Integration, 2017, vol. 32, issue 4, 842-872

Abstract: This study employs a Keynesian-type model of the global economy to investigate the impact of savings rate, openness, and population size on equilibrium tax rates and tax revenues in a world economy. Within the model, the marginal propensity to consume is represented by a matrix specifying each country’s income distribution. This study reveals that equilibrium tax rates are higher in countries with a higher rate of savings, greater level of openness, and smaller population size. If an infinitely large number of identical and highly integrated competing countries exist, then a system with indirect taxation has a lower equilibrium tax rate and higher tax revenues than a system with direct taxation. If a country with direct taxation and a country with indirect taxation compete, then the latter country has an advantage.

Keywords: Tax Competition; Global Economy; Keynesian Model; Tax Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E12 F15 F41 H21 H87 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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