Commodity tax harmonization and the location of industry

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Behrens, Kristian; Hamilton, Jonathan H.; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Thisse, Jacques-Francois
• 署名单位: State University System of Florida; University of Florida; Universite Catholique Louvain; University of Bologna
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0022-1996
• DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2006.08.002
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 271-291
• 关键词: Commodity tax; Destination principle; Origin principle; Tax harmonization; Home market effect

摘要

We study the positive implications of commodity taxation and tax harmonization under the destination and origin principles when firms are monopolistic competitors facing variable demand elasticity and segmented markets. Our emphasis is on the international location of firms in the presence of market size asymmetries and trade costs. Under the destination principle, an increase in the tax rate of a country always causes some firms to relocate to the other. This effect may be reversed under the origin principle when economic integration is deep enough. Under tax harmonization the choice of a common tax principle is irrelevant for the market outcomes and for the global tax revenues. It affects, however, the distribution of revenues between small and large countries. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V All rights reserved.