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Fiscal competition for FDI when bidding is costly

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posted on 2016-12-07, 14:25 authored by Ben FerrettBen Ferrett, Ian Wooton
We introduce bidding costs into a standard model of tax/subsidy competition between two potential host countries to attract the plant of a monopoly firm. Such a bidding cost, even if it is infinitesimal, qualitatively alters the resulting equilibrium. At most one country offers fiscal inducements to the firm, and this attenuates the familiar "race to the bottom" in corporate taxes. In general, the successful host country benefits from the resulting absence of active tax/subsidy competition, at the expense of the owners of the firm in the rest of the world.

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Economics Bulletin, 2013, vol. 33, issue 3, pages 2202-2208

Volume

33

Issue

3

Pages

2202 - 2208 (7)

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FERRETT, B. and WOOTON, I., 2013. Fiscal competition for FDI when bidding is costly. Economics Bulletin, 33 (3), pp.2202-2208.

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Economics Bulletin

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2013

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1545-2921

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  • en

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