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Place-Based Policies
Neumark, David - 2014
Place-based policies commonly target underperforming areas, such as deteriorating downtown business districts and disadvantaged regions. Principal examples include enterprise zones, European Union Structural Funds, and industrial cluster policies. Place-based policies are rationalized by various...
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Local Economic Development, Agglomeration Economies, and the Big Push : 100 Years of Evidence from the Tennessee Valley Authority
Kline, Patrick - 2014
We study the long run effects of one of the most ambitious regional development programs in U.S. history: the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). Using as controls authorities that were proposed but never approved by Congress, we find that the TVA led to large gains in agricultural employment that...
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How Does State-Level Carbon Pricing in the United States Affect Industrial Competitiveness?
Casey, Brendan; Gray, Wayne B.; Linn, Joshua; … - 2022
in the United States, we specify a flexible model to capture competition between a plant in a state with carbon pricing …
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The Diffusion of New Institutions : Evidence from Renaissance Venice's Patent System
Comino, Stefano - 2017
statutes that are more effective at preventing outsiders' entry and at mitigating price competition lead to less patenting. We … strongly restrict entry and price competition. We show that guilds that originated from medieval religious confraternities were … more likely to regulate entry and competition, and that the effect on patenting is robust to instrumenting guild statutes …
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Who Offers Tax-Based Business Development Incentives?
Felix, R. Alison - 2011
Many American communities seek to attract or retain businesses with tax abatements, tax credits, or tax increment financing of infrastructure projects (TIFs). The evidence for 1999 indicates that communities are most likely to offer one or more of these business development incentives if their...
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The Demand for, and Consequences of, Formalization Among Informal Firms in Sri Lanka
de Mel, Suresh - 2014
We conduct a field experiment in Sri Lanka providing informal firms incentives to formalize. Information about the registration process and reimbursement of direct costs has no effect. Payments equivalent to one-half to one month (alternatively, 2 months) of the median firm's profits leads to...
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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy
Criscuolo, Chiara - 2014
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
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Evaluating State and Local Business Tax Incentives
Slattery, Cailin - 2020
This essay describes and evaluates state and local business tax incentives in the United States. In 2014, states spent between $5 and $216 per capita on incentives for firms in the form of firm-specific subsidies and general tax credits, which mostly target investment, job creation, and research...
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Migration Creation, Diversion, and Retention : New Deal Grants and Migration: 1935-1940
Sorensen, Todd - 2007
During the 1930s the federal government embarked upon an ambitious series of grant programs designed to counteract the Great Depression. The amounts distributed varied widely across the country and potentially contributed to population shifts. We estimate an aggregate discrete choice model, in...
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Railroads and Local Economic Development : The United States in the 1850s
Haines, Michael R. - 2006
We use county and individual-level data from 1850 and 1860 to examine the economic impact of gaining access to a railroad. Previous studies have found that rail access was positively correlated with the value of agricultural land at a point in time, and have interpreted this correlation as...
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