A central message of the tax competition literature is that independent governments engage
in wasteful competition for scarce capital through reductions in tax rates and public …

English summary: Lars P. Feld evaluates the economic arguments for or against tax
competition in a federal polity and summarizes the empirical evidence concerned with the …

This paper uses spatial econometric methods to investigate property-tax competition among
local governments. The theoretical model is drawn from the literature on tax competition, in …

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 …

This paper helps to fill a gap in the public economics literature by providing empirical
evidence on strategic interaction among local governments. Using the methodology of Case …

The central question of this book is whether the assignment of government functions to the
individual jurisdictions in a federal state can ensure an optimal allocation of resources and a …

This book is a broad survey of the literature on public goods. There has been an explosion
of research in the last ten years in a broad variety of-eas in this literature and the time seems …

This paper analyzes a Tiebout/tax-competition model, where heterogeneity of consumer
preferences is introduced into a standard tax-competition framework. Following the modern …

Economists argue that land rent taxation is an ideal form of taxation as it causes no
deadweight losses. Nevertheless, pure land rent taxation is rarely applied. This paper …

This paper explores a question that lies at the intersection of two vast literatures. The goal is
to gauge whether the good side of fiscal decentralization, as emphasized by the Tiebout …