研討日期

2006年5月13日上午10:00 ~ 下午1:00

研討地點

台大經濟學系第二教室

討論文獻

題目

作者

文獻出處

Taking the bite out of fiscal competition

Justman, Thisse and Ypersele

Journal of Urban Economics, 52, 294-315, 2002.

報告人

林燕淑

參加人員

黃鴻、林燕淑、楊雅博、胡均立、吳芝文、許淑瑛、邱俊榮、王胤杰、王光正、吳芝文、李玫郁、依珊、林晏如、高國峰、梁文榮、許淑女英、陳宏易、彭正浩、曾靜枝

討論提要

Regions can benefit by offering infrastructure services that are differentiated by quality.  Regions that compete on infrastructure quality have an incentive to increase the degree of differentiation between them. This place an upper bound of active regions.

結論

This paper has seen that regions competing to attract investment by industrial firms can gain by differentiating the quality of infrastructure they offer.  There must be a sufficiently wide effective range of infrastructure quality in which the cost of quality improvements is not prohibitively steep.  There must be sufficient heterogeneity in firms’ willingness to pay for infrastructure quality, and this condition can set an upper bound on the number of active regions.

延伸研究

Look for more literature on fiscal competition and apply to product with horizontal differentiation.

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