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- Title
Tax Reform, Delocation, and Heterogeneous Firms.
- Authors
Baldwin, Richard; Okubo, Toshihiro
- Abstract
The standard international tax model is extended to allow for heterogeneous firms when agglomeration forces are important, enabling us to study the relocation effects of taxes that vary according to firm size. We show that allowing for heterogeneity permits a given tax scheme to have an endogenously different effect on the location decision of small and big firms, with the biggest firms being endogenously more likely to relocate in reaction to high taxes. We show that a reform that flattens the tax–firm–size profile can raise tax revenue without inducing any relocation.
- Subjects
TAX reform; BUSINESS enterprises; INTERNAL revenue; INDUSTRIAL clusters; ECONOMIC structure
- Publication
Scandinavian Journal of Economics, 2009, Vol 111, Issue 4, p741
- ISSN
0347-0520
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-9442.2009.01582.x