Trade Integration and Business Tax Differentials: Theory and Evidence from OECD Countries

Nelly Exbrayat () and Benny Geys
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Nelly Exbrayat: GATE Lyon Saint-Étienne - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon - Saint-Etienne - ENS de Lyon - École normale supérieure de Lyon - Université de Lyon - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UCBL - Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 - Université de Lyon - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: Building on recent contributions to the New Economic Geography literature, this paper analyses the relation between asymmetric market size, trade integration and business income tax differentials across countries. First, relying on a foot-loose capital model of tax competition, we illustrate that trade integration (or decreasing trade costs) reduces the importance of relative market size for differences in the extent of corporate taxation between countries. Then, using a dataset of 26 OECD countries over the period 1982-2004, we provide supportive evidence of these theoretical predictions: i.e., market size differences are strongly positively correlated with corporate income tax differences across countries but, crucially, trade integration weakens this link. These findings are obtained controlling for the potential endogeneity of trade integration and are robust to various alternative specifications and robustness checks.

Keywords: Tax competition; Trade integration; New Economic Geography; Tax differentials (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012-01-25
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Published in Séminaire invité au CREA, Université du Luxembourg, Jan 2012, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

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Working Paper: Trade Integration and Business Tax Differentials: Theory and Evidence from OECD Countries (2011)
Working Paper: Trade Integration and Business Tax Differentials: Theory and Evidence from OECD Countries (2011)
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