Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24323 
Year of Publication: 
1999
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 99-41
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
The paper considers governments' public procurement decision as a way of influencing industry structure. In a federation in which capital is mobile and capital taxation is harmonized, a home bias in public procurement can potentially be explained as an effort to increase the capital intensity of local production and to attract taxable capital. As a result, governments may prefer domestic firms to more efficient foreign firms.
Subjects: 
procurement
tax competition
federalism
JEL: 
H77
H57
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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