Preprint

Taxes, traffic jam and spillover in the metropolis

  • Ly, Tidiane Istituto di economia politica (IdEP), Facoltà di scienze economiche, Università della Svizzera italiana, Svizzera
    2019

45

English This paper studies local governments' public policies in a metropolitan area plagued by traffic congestion, where both residents and workers consume local public goods. We develop a new spatial sub-metropolitan tax competition model which features a central city surrounded by suburban towns linked by mobile capital and mobile residents who commute to work. We show that Pareto-efficiency is achieved if towns can retain their workers using labor subsidies. Otherwise, traffic congestion in the city is inefficiently high and local governments respond by setting inefficient public policies: (1) the city over-taxes capital and under-taxes residents, which leads to too little capital and too many residents in the city; (2) local public goods are under-provided in the city and over-provided in the towns.
Language
  • English
Classification
Economics
License
License undefined
Identifiers
  • RERO DOC 327066
  • ARK ark:/12658/srd1319074
Persistent URL
https://n2t.net/ark:/12658/srd1319074
Statistics

Document views: 69 File downloads:
  • wp1903.pdf: 160