Discussion Papers 2017

CIRJE-F-1071

"International Capital Market and Repeated Tax Competition"

Author Name

Kasamatsu, Satoshi and Hikaru Ogawa

Date

November 2017

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Subsequetly published in Journal of Public Economic Theory, vol.22, 751-768. 

Abstract

We propose an infinitely repeated game of tax competition with an endogenous capital supply. Our results show that the larger the capital supply elasticity to interest rates, the easier it is for interregional tax coordination within a country to be achieved. The capital supply elasticity is lower when countries are less integrated into the international capital market, and vice versa. Thus, our finding suggests that the regions in the country with a lower (higher) degree of integration in the global market are less (more) likely to achieve tax coordination.

Keywords: Repeated tax competition, Tax coordination, Endogenous capital supply.