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This paper extends Kempf and Rota-Graziosi (2010, "Endogenizing Leadership in Tax Competition." Journal of Public Economics 94 (9):768–776) and Hindriks and Nishimura (2015, "A Note on Equilibrium Leadership in Tax Competition Models." Journal of Public Economics 121:66–68) by jointly considering the effects of market power and strategic interaction in tax competition. We depict the regional asymmetry as different slopes and different vertical intercepts of the inverse demand for capital. In our setup, the risk-dominant equilibrium in which the large region leads is regained. Moreover, dissimilar to Kempf and Rota-Graziosi (2010, "Endogenizing Leadership in Tax Competition." Journal of Public Economics 94 (9):768–776) and Hindriks and Nishimura (2015, "A Note on Equilibrium Leadership in Tax Competition Models." Journal of Public Economics 121:66–68), we show that with a large market demand and a low capital endowment, the leadership by the large region can still be Pareto-dominant even if the asymmetry is very small.

This paper conducts a comprehensive investigation of Stackelberg mixed oligopoly with advertising competition. We focus our attention on misleading advertising, and at the same time derive some results that are closely related to profit‐raising entry. Different from Matsumura and Sunada (Economics Letters, Vol. 119 (2013), pp. 183–185), we find that it is the leadership of the public firm in the advertising stage that may lead to the negative advertising level of the public firm and make the profit of each private firm decrease in the number of the private firms. In addition, we also find that the public leadership in the advertising stage may lead to the negative aggregate advertising level.

This paper looks at the influence of financial factors on the labour market transitions of Canadian older workers. Also, in contrast to previous studies, the analysis focuses on transitions between full-time work, part-time work, and retirement. Sequential annual observations of employment and retirement choices are examined for samples of full-time and part-time workers, drawn from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), 2001–2006. Measures of potential pension wealth and one-year and peak pension accruals are imputed using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances, 1973–1997, and the SLID, 1997–2006. Regression results indicate that financial factors influence workers to move from full-time to part-time jobs and support the evidence found in previous studies that retirement is usually a process, not a single event. Also, an increase in pension accruals increases the probability of working full-time for lower-income earners only. Among nonfinancial factors, a negative health shock increases the probability of working part-time or retiring for full-time workers but has little effect on the labour market transitions of part-time workers. Finally, these results suggest that policies to encourage phased retirement are unlikely to have a significant labour market effect since bridge employment is already a common transition process among older workers.