This study investigates spatial income segregation in fiscally decentralized urban areas. The
theoretical part proposes the progressivity of local income taxes as a new theoretical …

We provide empirical evidence on the influence of income taxes on the choice of residence
of taxpayers at the local government level. The fact that Swiss communities can …

Tax competition is supposed to lead to inefficiencies in the provision of public goods and
difficulties for decentralized redistribution. A necessary condition for these effects to occur is …

This paper studies equilibrium and redistribution in a system of local jurisdictions when
households differ by both preferences and income. Differences in preferences may be either …

We provide novel evidence on the role of income taxes for housing rents and spatial sorting.
Drawing on comprehensive micro‐level data, we estimate the responsiveness of …

Tax competition is supposed to lead to thecollapse of the welfare state because, first, it
willbecome difficult for a single jurisdiction to levy aredistribution tax upon the rich and …

Tiebout's classic 1956 paper has strong implications regarding stratification across and
within jurisdictions, predicting in the simplest instance a hierarchy of internally …

Household demands for public goods are estimated and used to test three hypotheses:(1)
the Tiebout hypothesis, which implies that all households within a community have similar …

In this paper, we describe a set of measures of residential and social segregation that
address a number of known shortcomings of many existing measurement approaches. In …

Location-based tax policies are redistributive as evidenced by their placement in distressed
areas. However, the previous literature has focused on mean effects which can mask …