Tax competition in federations and the welfare consequences of decentralization

Journal of Urban Economics

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 397-407

  Keen, Michael J ^a   Kotsogiannis, Christos ^b  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER BUSINESS SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decentralization; Federalism; Tax competition; Vertical and horizontal externalities

Indexed keywords

EID: 5444227183     PISSN: 00941190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2004.04.005     Document Type: Article

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