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Identifying Tax-Setting Responses from Local Fiscal Policy Programs

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Thunecke,  Georg
Public Economics, MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance, Max Planck Society;

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Merlo, V., Schanbacher, A., Thunecke, G., & Wamser, G. (2023). Identifying Tax-Setting Responses from Local Fiscal Policy Programs. Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance, No. 2023-23. doi:10.2139/ssrn.4470393.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000F-3E00-C
Abstract
This paper studies tax policy interaction among local governments for both mobile and immobile tax bases. We exploit exogenous changes in the local tax setting of German municipalities due to participation in state debt reduction programs to learn about the size, scope and nature of strategic interaction among local governments. Our results suggest strong and significant tax policy responses both in corporate as well as in property tax rates. Our estimates imply response function gradients in the range of 0.3 to 0.7, depending on the type of tax and state. Policy spillovers from property tax rates remain very local, which is consistent with yardstick competition behavior.