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Incumbent Behavior: Vote Seeking, Tax Setting and Yardstick Competition

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Timothy Besley
Anne Case

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This paper presents a theoretical and empirical investigation of tax competition when voters use the tax policy of neighboring jurisdictions as information to evaluate the performance of their incumbent politicians. We show that this has implications both for voter tolerance of high taxes and for the process of tax setting itself, Our empirical results, which use two different tax data sets, confirm the importance of neighbors' taxes both on the probability of incumbent reelection and on tax setting behavior.

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Paper provided by National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc in its series NBER Working Papers with number 4041.

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Publication status: published as American Economic Review, Volume 85, No. 1, March 1995: pp. 25-45
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