OUC Economic Research Paper series No.0603
Evolutionary equilibria in capital tax competition
with imitative learning |
Hiroyuki
Sano* |
* Department of Economics, Otaru University of Commerce |
Abstract |
This paper presents an alternative model where each decision maker takes an economy-wide net return to capital parametrically even in tax competition among finite nonatomistic jurisdictions. To this end, we examine a long-run equilibrium of a tax competition game adopting an evolutionary game-theoretic approach. We find that a unique evolutionarily stable strategy coincides with the strategy consisting of a unique stochastically stable state in the imitative dynamics of tax competition. Moreover, in the evolutionary equilibria, we obtain the same result as in the "purely competitive" equilibrium even with finite nonatomistic jurisdictions. |
JEL Classification: C72, H77. |
Keywords: Tax competition, Imitative learning, Evolutionarily stable strategy, Stochastically stable state. |