This paper reviews the research literature in the United States on effects of state and local "economic development incentives". Such incentives are tax breaks or grants, provided by state or local governments to individual firms, that are intended to affect firms' decisions about business...

When state and local governments engage in balanced budget changes in taxes and spending, what fiscal multiplier effects do such policies have on creating local jobs? Traditionally, the view has been that possible job-creation effects of such state and local "demand-side" policies are smaller,...

This paper reviews the research literature in the United States on effects of state and local "economic development incentives". Such incentives are tax breaks or grants, provided by state or local governments to individual firms, that are intended to affect firms' decisions about business...

When state and local governments engage in balanced budget changes in taxes and spending, what fiscal multiplier effects do such policies have on creating local jobs? Traditionally, the view has been that possible job-creation effects of such state and local "demand-side" policies are smaller,...