The Production Factors’ Mobility and the Fiscal Competition: A Theoretical Overview

The increase of the production factors’ mobility, given the facts of the economic and financial globalization, brought again into focus the attractiveness of different states at the world level. This study is focused on the analysis of conceptual term of fiscal competition, from traditional approach such as Tiebout’s theory, up to spatial approach of fiscal competition, and also on the linkage between production factors’ mobility and fiscal competition. According to the results, our analysis reflects that while the level of the taxation rates variation represents the only explaining factor of the production factors localization in the traditional approach of the fiscal competition, in opposition the new geographical economics tries to explain the localization decisions of the companies, employees and mobile capital, by taking into consideration all the factors influencing the space distribution in the conditions of the economic integration increase