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.

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