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Taking the Bite Out of Fiscal Competition

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Justman, Moshe
Thisse, Jacques-François
van Ypersele, Tanguy

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Regions can benefit by offering infrastructure services that are differentiated by quality, thus segmenting the market for industrial location. Regions that compete on infrastructure quality have an incentive to increase the degree of differentiation between them. This places an upper bound on the number of regions successfully able to participate in the location market, and limits the dissipation of regional surplus through Tiebout competition. It indicates a process of fiscal agglomeration, through which regional concentrations arise, which does not depend on the circular causation underlying much of the recent literature on economic geography.

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Keywords: fiscal competition; regional development; technological infrastructure; vertical differentiation;

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H73 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - Interjurisdictional Differentials and Their Effects
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R12 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
R58 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Policy

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