SFB 303 Discussion Paper No. A - 441
Author: Nett, Lorenz
Title: Tax Authority to the European Parliament?
Abstract: In this paper we analyze whether countries of the EC community
should plead for a decentralized
system to finance the European funds rather than using a uniform tax imposed
by the European parliament.
The analysis is within a multistage game-theoretic framework in which the
implication of the financing system
of a confederation on the investment behavior in the respective states is
considered. The paper is in the tradition
of the literature which claims that from a view of global efficiency
property - rights structures inducing ex-post
efficient allocations may be worse than a system leading to an ex-post
inefficient allocation. For this specific
economic issue we elucidate the tradeoff between incentive effects and
distributional policy. Especially we
demonstrate that rather homogeneous countries benefit by installing a
central tax institution.
Keywords: fiscal federalism, efficient taxation, provision of public goods
JEL-Classification-Number: F02, H21, H41
Creation-Date: May 1994
Unfortunately this paper is not available online. Please contact us to order a hardcopy.
SFB 303 Homepage
28.09.1999, Webmaster