This article reviews the social science literature on tax competition in three steps. The first
step is to look at the baseline model of tax competition on which most of the literature …

This paper reviews some of the central issues that arise in thinking about the motives for,
politics of, constraints on and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

This article examines public policy in the European Union (EU) by drawing upon the
framework of policy transfer, which has been recently refined by comparativists, and the …

This paper uses a two-country general equilibrium model of the world economy in order to
analyze the effects of budget deficits and government spending on world rates of interest …

In recent years the welfare state has come under attack from economists, and in many
OECD countries there have been calls for spending on the welfare state to be rolled back …

One of the most common and strongest criticisms of the EU is that power is held by a select
few who are unaccountable technocrats sitting in Brussels who without consultation …

If governments stepped in where markets failed, reintroducing markets through the backdoor
of systems competition will again result in market failure. Three models are presented which …

When households are mobile among jurisdictions, income redistribution by individual
jurisdictions creates fiscal externalities. A model of interjurisdictional migration is used to …

This article examines the role that economic and political factors played in tax reform in
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries from 1986 to …