The paper utilizes data for north-east England over the period 1985-98 to examine if foreign-owned start-up plants achieve their job targets. Different models are estimated, each shedding light on the relationship between the jobs promised by plants in their initial investment and their actual...

This paper constructs a consistent series for U.K. central government expenditure on industrial subsidies over the postwar period, valuing incentives in grant equivalent terms from the position of a firm undertaking investment appraisal. The analysis includes direct subsidy payments as well as...