Tax competition: An impossible coordination?

Published on June 28, 2019 – Updated on November 25, 2019
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Tax competition: An impossible coordination?


Tax competition describes the competition between governments to attract capital to their countries. The 2008 crisis, the bankruptcy of some States, and the multiple scandals of tax evasion or very aggressive tax planning (from Panama Papers to Luxleaks) have highlighted the importance of the issue of fair or unfair tax competition, and called for more tax coordination or cooperation. Rota-Graziosi (2019) establishes a sufficient condition for the existence of the equilibrium of tax competition. He deduces some results regarding the uniqueness of this equilibrium, the impossibility of coordination through coalition, and the effects of an endogenous stock of capital.


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