Rainald Borck
Biographic Data
| ID | 6009914 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rainald Borck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rainald |
| FAMILY NAME | Borck |
| SIGNATURE | BORCK R |
| AFFILIATIONS | German Institute for Economic Research |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0833-020X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 43 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Property tax competition: A quantitative assessment
We develop a model of property taxation and characterize equilibria under three alternative taxation regimes often used in the public finance literature: decentralized taxation, centralized taxation, and “rent seeking” regimes. We show that decentralized taxation results in inefficiently high tax rates, whereas centralized taxation yields a common optimal tax rate, and tax rates in the rent-seeking regime can be either inefficiently high or low. …
Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model
Population density and urban air quality
Political Participation and the Welfare State
Pollution and city size: Can cities be too small
We study optimal and equilibrium sizes of cities in a city system model with pollution. Pollution is a function of population size. If pollution is local or per-capita pollution increases with population, equilibrium cities are too large under symmetry; with asymmetric cities, the largest cities are too large and the smallest too small. When pollution is global and per-capita pollution declines with city size, cities may be too small under symmet…
The Political Economics of Higher-Education Finance for Mobile Individuals
We study voting over higher-education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets. Households differ in their financial endowment and their children's ability. Nonstudents are immobile. Students decide where to study; they return home after graduation with exogenous probability. The voters of the two regions decide on whether to subsidize higher-education costs or to rely on tuition fees only. We find that in equilibriu…
Adieu Rabenmutter—culture, fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare
A simple theory of industry location and residence choice
Journal Article A simple theory of industry location and residence choice Get access Rainald Borck, Rainald Borck **Department of Economics, University of Passau, Innstr. 27, 94032 Passau, CESifo and DIW Berlin, Germany. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Pflüger, Michael Pflüger ****Department of Economics, University of Passau, Innstr. 27, 94032 Passau, DIW Berlin and IZA, Germany. email Searc…
Subsidies for intracity and intercity commuting
Commuting subsidies with two transport modes
Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence
We consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods: one that benefits mobile skilled workers and one that benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different spending categories. We then estimate these reaction functions using data from German communities. Thereby we explicitly allow for a spatially lagged dependent variable and…
Consumption and Social Life in Cities: Evidence from Germany
This paper examines social agglomeration externalities. Using survey data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, it examines the link between city size and different measures of consumption, social interaction and social capital. There is strong evidence of agglomeration effects in consumption, while positive effects of city size on social interaction and social capital variables seem to some extent to be driven by sorting. Further, using responses…
Fiscal Competition, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and the Composition of Public Spending
Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyzes the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low-skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labor. Each group of workers benefits from a different kind of public good. Mobility of skilled workers provides an incentive for jurisdictions to spend too much on public goods benefiting the ski…
Political economy of commuting subsidies
Tax competition and the choice of tax structure in a majority voting model
Jurisdiction Size, Political Participation, and the Allocation of Resources
Pareto Efficiency and Majority Voting: Why High Taxes on the Middle Class may be Desirable
Ideology and interest groups
Adieu Rabenmutter—culture, fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare
Political economy of commuting subsidies
Commuting subsidies with two transport modes
Consumption and Social Life in Cities: Evidence from Germany
This paper examines social agglomeration externalities. Using survey data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, it examines the link between city size and different measures of consumption, social interaction and social capital. There is strong evidence of agglomeration effects in consumption, while positive effects of city size on social interaction and social capital variables seem to some extent to be driven by sorting. Further, using responses…
Jurisdiction Size, Political Participation, and the Allocation of Resources
Subsidies for intracity and intercity commuting
Tax competition and the choice of tax structure in a majority voting model
Ideology and interest groups
Pollution and city size: Can cities be too small
We study optimal and equilibrium sizes of cities in a city system model with pollution. Pollution is a function of population size. If pollution is local or per-capita pollution increases with population, equilibrium cities are too large under symmetry; with asymmetric cities, the largest cities are too large and the smallest too small. When pollution is global and per-capita pollution declines with city size, cities may be too small under symmet…
A simple theory of industry location and residence choice
Journal Article A simple theory of industry location and residence choice Get access Rainald Borck, Rainald Borck **Department of Economics, University of Passau, Innstr. 27, 94032 Passau, CESifo and DIW Berlin, Germany. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Pflüger, Michael Pflüger ****Department of Economics, University of Passau, Innstr. 27, 94032 Passau, DIW Berlin and IZA, Germany. email Searc…
Ideology and interest groups
Pareto Efficiency and Majority Voting: Why High Taxes on the Middle Class may be Desirable
Jurisdiction Size, Political Participation, and the Allocation of Resources
Tax competition and the choice of tax structure in a majority voting model
Fiscal Competition, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and the Composition of Public Spending
Following Keen and Marchand (1997), the paper analyzes the effect of fiscal competition on the composition of public spending in a model where capital and skilled workers are mobile while low-skilled workers are immobile. Taxes are levied on capital and labor. Each group of workers benefits from a different kind of public good. Mobility of skilled workers provides an incentive for jurisdictions to spend too much on public goods benefiting the ski…
Political economy of commuting subsidies
Fiscal Competition and the Composition of Public Spending: Theory and Evidence
We consider fiscal competition between jurisdictions. Capital taxes are used to finance a public input and two public goods: one that benefits mobile skilled workers and one that benefits immobile unskilled workers. We derive the jurisdictions' reaction functions for different spending categories. We then estimate these reaction functions using data from German communities. Thereby we explicitly allow for a spatially lagged dependent variable and…
Consumption and Social Life in Cities: Evidence from Germany
This paper examines social agglomeration externalities. Using survey data from the German Socioeconomic Panel, it examines the link between city size and different measures of consumption, social interaction and social capital. There is strong evidence of agglomeration effects in consumption, while positive effects of city size on social interaction and social capital variables seem to some extent to be driven by sorting. Further, using responses…
Commuting subsidies with two transport modes
A simple theory of industry location and residence choice
Journal Article A simple theory of industry location and residence choice Get access Rainald Borck, Rainald Borck **Department of Economics, University of Passau, Innstr. 27, 94032 Passau, CESifo and DIW Berlin, Germany. email Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael Pflüger, Michael Pflüger ****Department of Economics, University of Passau, Innstr. 27, 94032 Passau, DIW Berlin and IZA, Germany. email Searc…
Subsidies for intracity and intercity commuting
Adieu Rabenmutter—culture, fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare
The Political Economics of Higher-Education Finance for Mobile Individuals
We study voting over higher-education finance in an economy with two regions and two separated labor markets. Households differ in their financial endowment and their children's ability. Nonstudents are immobile. Students decide where to study; they return home after graduation with exogenous probability. The voters of the two regions decide on whether to subsidize higher-education costs or to rely on tuition fees only. We find that in equilibriu…
Political Participation and the Welfare State
Pollution and city size: Can cities be too small
We study optimal and equilibrium sizes of cities in a city system model with pollution. Pollution is a function of population size. If pollution is local or per-capita pollution increases with population, equilibrium cities are too large under symmetry; with asymmetric cities, the largest cities are too large and the smallest too small. When pollution is global and per-capita pollution declines with city size, cities may be too small under symmet…
Population density and urban air quality
Energy policies and pollution in two developing country cities: A quantitative model
Property tax competition: A quantitative assessment
We develop a model of property taxation and characterize equilibria under three alternative taxation regimes often used in the public finance literature: decentralized taxation, centralized taxation, and “rent seeking” regimes. We show that decentralized taxation results in inefficiently high tax rates, whereas centralized taxation yields a common optimal tax rate, and tax rates in the rent-seeking regime can be either inefficiently high or low. …
Economics (15 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (12 works) · Public economics (9 works) · Microeconomics (7 works) · Local Government Finance and Decentralization (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Demography (4 works)