Welfare-improving competition for mobile capital

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-18

  Wilson, John Douglas ^a  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Capital mobility; Capital taxation; Expenditure competition; Leviathan; Public input; Tax competition

Indexed keywords

EID: 11244352559     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2004.08.003     Document Type: Article

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