Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30436 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2795
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
In a multi-country general equilibrium economy with mobile capital and rigid-wage unemployment, countries may differ in capital endowments, production technologies and rigid wages. Governments tax capital at the source to maximize national welfare. They account for tax base responses to their tax and take as given the world-market interest rate. We specify conditions under which - in contrast to free trade with undistorted labor markets - welfare declines and unemployment increases in some countries (i) when moving from au-tarky to trade without taxation and/or (ii) when moving from trade without taxation to tax competition.
Subjects: 
capital taxation
asymmetric tax competition
rigid wages
unemployment
losses from trade
JEL: 
E24
H25
H87
J64
R13
F21
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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