TY - JOUR AU - Razin,Assaf AU - Sadka,Efraim TI - Optimal Incentives to Domestic Investment in the Presence of Capital Flight JF - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series VL - No. 3080 PY - 1991 Y2 - October 1991 UR - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3080 L1 - http://www.nber.org/papers/w3080.pdf N1 - Author contact info: Assaf Razin Department of Economics Cornell University Uris 422 Ithaca, NY 14853 Tel: 607/255-9625 Fax: 607/255-2818 E-Mail: ar256@cornell.edu Efraim Sadka Tel Aviv University Eitan Berglas School of Economics P.O.B. 39040 Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv, 69978, ISRAEL E-Mail: sadka@post.tau.ac.il AB - This paper develops a model of an open economy which employs distortionary taxes to finance public consumption, and with an access to the world capital market. The paper examines the efficiency of quantity restrictions on capital exports and the accompanying set of taxes. A distinction is made between a benchmark case where the government can fully tax foreign-source income and a more realistic case where the government cannot effectively tax foreign-source income. ER -