• Article  

      International migration, the provision of public goods, and welfare 

      Gatsios, Konstantine; Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Michael, Michael S. (1999)
      This paper highlights the importance of the 'public finance' aspects of international migration on wages and welfare. We construct a general equilibrium model of a labor-exporting (i.e., source) or of a labor-importing ...
    • Article  

      Tax competition, capital mobility, and public good provision within a trading block 

      Hatzipanayotou, Panos; Hadjiyiannis, Costas; Michael, Michael S. (2002)
      The authors examine a two-country general-equilibrium model of a two-country trading block where governments through tax policies attract mobile capital and provide an imported public consumption good. Within this framework ...
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      Why free trade may hurt developing countries 

      Michael, Michael S. (1997)
      This paper builds a general equilibrium trade model where a country produces two traded goods and one nontraded public consumption good. The government finances the provision of the public good by taxing the incomes of ...