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CIRJE-F-553 Interregional Tax Competition and Intraregional Political Competition: The Optimal Provision of Public Goods Toshihiro Ihori University of Tokyo C. C. Yang National Chengchi University April 2008 CIRJE Discussion Papers can be downloaded without charge from: http://www.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/cirje/research/03research02dp.html Discussion Papers are a series of manuscripts in their draft form. They are not intended for circulation or distribution except as indicated by the author. For that reason Discussion Papers may not be reproduced or distributed without the written consent of the author. Interregional Tax Competition and Intraregional Political Competition: The Optimal Provision of Public Goods Toshihiro Ihori* Department of Economics, University of Tokyo C.C. Yang** Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica Department of Public Finance, National Chengchi University March 2008 [Abstract] This paper explores the implications of the interaction between interregional tax competition and intraregional political competition for the optimal provision of public goods. In contrast to Hoyt’s (1991) finding that the extent to which public goods are undersupplied is monotonically increasing in the number of competing regions, we show that the relationship between