I. International mobility of technology -- II. Capital flows and exchange-rate misalignment -- III. Tax incentives and patterns of capital flows -- IV. Limits to income redistribution in federal systems -- V. Tax harmonization, tax coordination, and the "disappearing taxpayer" -- VI. Political-economy aspects of international tax competition -- VII. Migration of skilled and unskilled labor -- VIII. Fiscal aspects of monetary unification
Summary
The increasing economic openness expressed in the globalization of independent economic systems has created problems as well as opportunities that cross formal borders in new and unexpected ways. Professors Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka have compiled and edited a series of essays based on lectures delivered at the 1996 Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance that explore the ramifications of globalization in selected areas of public finance
Analysis
Economic policy
Public finance theory
Capital formation
Fiscal policy
Monetary policy
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Notes
"Essays based on lectures delivered at the 1996 congress of the International Institute of Public Finance"--Jkt