Weakly democratic regular tax equilibria in a local public goods economy with perfect consumer mobility

Strategic nonlinear income tax competition with perfect labor mobility

Tax competition between two governments who choose nonlinear income tax schedules to maximize the average utility of its residents when skills are unobservable and labor is perfectly mobile is examined. We show that there are no Nash equilibria in which there is a skill type that pays positive taxes to one country and whose utility is larger than the average utility in the other country or in w...

Effect of Value Added Tax (VAT) on Public Sector’s Economy Stability in Iran (with Promoting Ethics and Tax Culture Approach)

Background: Value added tax as an indirect tax is one of the effective sources of government tax revenue and the study of its economic effects is the focus of many economic studies. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to investigate the effect of VAT on the stability of the public sector economy in Iran with the approach of promoting tax ethics and culture. Method: The present study was ...

Democratization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy

Democratization, Decentralization and the Distribution of Local Public Goods in a Poor Rural Economy

Type-Contingent Perfect Public Ex-Post Equilibria∗

We consider repeated games with incomplete information where players observe imperfect public signals of the actions and the map from actions to signal distributions is itself unknown. To do so, we introduce the concept of type-contingent perfect public ex-post equilibrium or T-PPXE, which reduces to the PPXE of Fudenberg and Yamamoto (2009) in complete-information games, and reduces to the bel...