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Taxation, Infrastructure, and Endogenous Trade Costs in New Economic Geography

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  • S. Gruber
  • L. Marattin

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This paper presents a New Economic Geography model with distortionary taxation and endogenized trade costs. Tax revenues finance a public good, infrastructure. We show that the introduction of costly public investment in infrastructure increases agglomerative tendencies. With respect to the regions' sizes, in the periphery, the price-index for manufacturing goods decreases, whereas for the core, the price-index is rather high since the distortionary effect of taxes dominates. "Free riding" - or, in terms of regional policy, externally funded infrastructure investment - is beneficial for the periphery, which can devote all its tax revenue to local demand support, generating a positive home market effect and driving the catch-up process.

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  • S. Gruber & L. Marattin, 2009. "Taxation, Infrastructure, and Endogenous Trade Costs in New Economic Geography," Working Papers 668, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna.
    • Handle: RePEc:bol:bodewp:668
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    1. Mark D. Partridge, 2010. "The duelling models: NEG vs amenity migration in explaining US engines of growth," Papers in Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 89(3), pages 513-536, August.
    2. Meurers, Martin & Moenius, Johannes, 2018. "Optimal Public Investment in Economic Centers and the Periphery," VfS Annual Conference 2018 (Freiburg, Breisgau): Digital Economy 181579, Verein für Socialpolitik / German Economic Association.
    3. Stefan Gruber, 2010. "To Migrate or to Commute?," Review of Economic Analysis, Digital Initiatives at the University of Waterloo Library, vol. 2(1), pages 110-134, January.
    4. A. Furukawa, 2017. "Industrial distribution effect on the local public goods," Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, Springer, vol. 1(2), pages 379-397, October.

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    JEL classification:

    • H54 - Public Economics - - National Government Expenditures and Related Policies - - - Infrastructures
    • F12 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Models of Trade with Imperfect Competition and Scale Economies; Fragmentation
    • H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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