Network development in international project marketing and the impact of external facilitation

This article reports on an experiment in external facilitation of international project marketing activity. The case involved a large, World Bank funded project in China aimed at upgrading grain storage and handling facilities. An organization was established in Australia to bring together and support efforts by Australian firms to win a share of this project. Network-building, at a number of levels both in China and Australia, emerged from the qualitative study as a critical factor in effective project marketing. External facilitation played a positive role in the network-building process.     

The Tourism Policy

This article defines and explores the need for tourism policy. It considers the design of such a policy in terms of the development of tourism, the policy's aims and its relation to institutions and levels of development in various countries, before setting forth main guidelines. The article then applies this understanding of tourism policy to the example of Italy, emphasizing the supply of facilities, the demand on them, and the effect of government policy on tourism. The paper concludes by affirming the value of tourism policy both as a link between economic practice and theory and as an example of the world's governance by economic ideas.     

Tax competition and tax base equalization in the presence of multiple tax instruments

The literature on tax competition has argued that tax base equalization, which reduces regional disparities in tax bases, can serve as a means of internalizing horizontal and vertical fiscal externalities. This argument assumes that each government relies on a single tax base (a regional tax on mobile capital and a federal tax on savings). This paper considers the case in which a distortionary labor tax is also available. Internalizing fiscal externalities requires that while the regional capital tax base is fully equalized, a region’s equalization entitlement for the labor tax is positive when its tax base is “larger” than the average tax base of all regions. This efficient tax base equalization system is incompatible with the primary objective of fiscal equalization.

     

How Do Carbon Taxes Affect Emissions? Plant-Level Evidence from Manufacturing

Environmental and Resource Economics - This paper investigates how carbon taxes affect emissions by examining British Columbia’s revenue-neutral carbon tax in the manufacturing sector. We...