DO AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES REDUCE THE SENSITIVITY OF FIRM LOCATION TO TAX DIFFERENTIALS?
Recent theoretical work in economic geography has shown that agglomeration forces can mitigate 'race-to-the-bottom' tax competition, by partly or fully offsetting firms' sensitivity to tax differentials. We test this proposition using data on firm births across Swiss municipalities. W...
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| Volume: | 122 |
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| Main Author: |
Marius Brülhart
Mario Jametti Kurt Schmidheiny |
| Format: | Journal Article |
| Language: | English |
| Zielgruppe: |
Trade Academic |
| Place of publication: |
Oxford, UK Wiley-Blackwell 01.09.2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd WILEY-BLACKWELL Wiley Subscription Services, Inc |
| published in: | The Economic journal (London) Vol. 122; no. 563; pp. 1069 - 1093 |
| ORCID: |
0000-0001-7637-7451 |
| Data of publication: | 20120901 |
| ISSN: |
0013-0133 1468-0297 |
| EISSN: |
1468-0297 |
| Discipline: | Economics |
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mario.jametti@usi.ch Correspondence regarding this article may be sent to: Marius Brülhart, Département d’économétrie et économie politique, Ecole des HEC, Université de Lausanne, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland, email Kurt Schmidheiny, Universität Basel, Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, Peter Merian‐Weg 6, 4002 Basel, Switzerland, email We thank Jörn‐Steffen Pischke (the editor) for very helpful comments. We have also benefited from suggestions by Richard Baldwin, Antonio Ciccone, Gilles Duranton, Diego Puga, Helen Simpson, Albert Solé‐Ollé, Dan Trefler, Federico Trionfetti, Jean‐François Wen and seminar participants at the Universities of Barcelona, Dijon, Geneva (Graduate Institute of International Studies), IFS, KU Leuven, the London School of Economics, Madrid (Complutense), Nottingham, Pompeu Fabra, St. Gallen, Strathclyde, Toronto, Vienna (IHS), Warwick (IIPF) and York. Jean‐François Fracheboud and Andrea Grossi at the Swiss Federal Statistical Office have generously facilitated our access to the data. Financial support from the Swiss National Science Foundation (grants CRSI11‐130648, PBLA1‐106054, PA001‐105026 and NCCR Trade Regulation), from the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (‘Micro‐Dyn’ project), from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (Ramon y Cajal and Consolider SEJ2007‐64340) and the Barcelona GSE Research Network is gratefully acknowledged. Marius.Brulhart@unil.ch Mario Jametti, Mecop Institute, University of Lugano, Via G. Buffi 13, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland, email kurt.schmidheiny@unibas.ch |
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