Competition for International Students

Competition for the International Pool of Talent

Developed countries increasingly compete for a pool of talented students from developing countries. This competition brings host countries to vertically differentiate their education programmes: some countries offer higher education quality and charge high tuition fees, while others provide a lower quality for lower tuition fees. This paper argues that the education quality of high-quality coun...

The Third International Timetabling Competition

This paper is the organizers’ report on the Third International Timetabling Competition (ITC2011), run during the first half of 2012. Its participants tackled 35 instances of the high school timetabling problem, taken from schools in 10 countries.

International Tax Competition and Coordination

This paper aims to provide a comprehensive survey of the theory of international tax competition. Starting with the standard framework, it visits the non-cooperative equilibrium of tax competition, analyses aspects of partial and regional coordination, repeated interaction, stock-flow-effects, agglomeration effects and time consistency issues in dynamic models. We discuss profit shifting in the...

Corporate Taxation and International Competition

Countries around the world continue to tax corporate income at significant rates despite downward pressures from international competition. Average statutory corporate income tax rates fell from 46% in 1982 to 33% in 1999, though tax bases simultaneously broadened, as a result of which average corporate tax collections actually rose from 2.1% of GDP in 1982 to 2.4% of GDP in 1999. Two pieces of...

Eighth International Research Conference for Graduate Students