Locational efficiency in a federal system without land rent taxation

Robert Philipowski ()
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Robert Philipowski: Universität Bonn

Review of Regional Research: Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft, 2017, vol. 37, issue 1, No 4, 102 pages

Abstract: Abstract We show that in a federal state with mobile population labor and capital income taxes do not suffice to achieve efficiency in general, but that they do suffice if the federation consists of just two types of regions. In the general case we study the resulting second-best problem and find that in the second-best optimum the level of public good provision is efficient, but neither capital nor labor is allocated efficiently.

Keywords: Federalism; Mobile population; Locational efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H21 H71 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s10037-016-0109-0

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