Economic geography and the fiscal effects of regional integration
Economic geography and the fiscal effects of regional integration
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DOI：
10.1016/s0022-1996(99)00050-1
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发表时间：
2000-12
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Rodney D. Ludema;I. Wooton
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作者：
Rodney D. Ludema;I. Wooton
在经济地理模型中，植物层面的规模经济和贸易成本为生产向制造业核心和农业外围地区的空间集聚创造了激励因素，从而造成了地区收入差异。我们考察了各国政府之间的税收竞争，以影响制造业活动的地点。劳动力流动不完全，政府征收再分配税。区域一体化的模式要么是增加劳动力流动，要么是降低贸易成本。我们发现，无论哪种类型的一体化都可能导致税收竞争强度的降低，从而导致更高的均衡税收。此外，经济一体化必须在集聚力最强的时候增税。
In models of economic geography, plant-level scale economies and trade costs create incentives for spatial agglomeration of production into a manufacturing core and agricultural periphery, creating regional income differentials. We examine tax competition between national governments to influence the location of manufacturing activity. Labor is imperfectly mobile and governments impose redistributive taxes. Regional integration is modeled as either increased labor mobility or lower trade costs. We show that either type of integration may result in a decrease in the intensity of tax competition, and thus higher equilibrium taxes. Moreover, economic integration must increase taxes when the forces of agglomeration are the strongest.