Fiscal competition for FDI when bidding is costly

We introduce bidding costs into a standard model of tax/subsidy competition between two potential host countries to attract the plant of a monopoly firm. Such a bidding cost, even if it is infinitesimal, qualitatively alters the resulting equilibrium. At most one country offers fiscal inducements to...

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Main Authors: Ben Ferrett, Ian Wooton
Format: Default Article
Published: 2013
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/2134/23370
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