Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26129 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2084
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal competition through infrastructure in a New Economic Geography framework. It is shown that regional competition leads to convergence if the trade costs are high but induces divergence if trade cost have fallen below a certain value. Moreover, fiscal competition yields an overprovision if the trade costs are sizable while it leads to underprovision if the regions are highly integrated. Finally, a trade-off between regional convergence and efficiency arises since the efficient distribution of regional infrastructure requires full agglomeration for sufficiently low trade costs.
JEL: 
F12
F15
H87
R12
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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