Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/102167 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 4878
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital mobility in particular induces tax competition, thus putting downward pressure on capital taxes. However, while capital mobility introduces the inefficiency of tax competition, it makes the allocation of capital more efficient. Whether national welfare and tax-financed public good provision increase or decrease through capital mobility depends on country characteristics. These characteristics include the relative capital endowment, the availability of taxes on fixed factors such as land and the preference for the public good. We compare the two second best settings of a closed economy and an economy with capital mobility to show that the relative capital endowment determines whether the net effect of capital mobility is positive. Fixed factor taxes have the potential to improve welfare by defusing the globalization trilemma through a reduction in the need for capital taxation.
Subjects: 
capital mobility
globalization
interjurisdictional competition
public good provision
JEL: 
D62
H21
H50
H73
H87
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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