What are the prospects for economic development in lagging sub-national regions? What are the roles of public infrastructure investments and fiscal incentives in influencing the location and performance of industrial activity? To examine these questions, the authors estimate a spatial profit...

The concept of Environmental Justice (EJ) refers to social inequities in the distribution of environmental risks. This paper presents the first European <italic>spatio-temporal</italic> EJ analysis, focusing on the location of 107 waste incinerators in France since the 1960s to assess potential biases in siting...

The nature of environmental risk is often determined by the location patterns of industrial firms in a locale. We develop a methodology for analyzing the capacity of toxics-generating industries to leave toxic residuals on the landscape, in the context of long-term master planning. To understand...

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>We estimate the impact of manufacturer business taxes on value added during the 1990s for 15 manufacturing sectors in 20 U.S. states. When the tax climate is properly measured as the potential liability arising from new investment in a state, we estimate that a 10 percent...</p>

This paper estimates the valuation effects from new construction of low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) projects on neighbouring single-family homes in Polk County, Iowa. The evaluative models estimate the impact from LIHTC project locations on assessed values using a 1999-2007 panel of...

Colombia necesita adoptar una agenda estratégica para poder atender el rezago en que se encuentra el sector de infraestructura de transporte. Dos reformas largamente aplazadas son determinantes para el éxito de esa agenda: Primero, aprovechar la oportunidad que representa la agenda de Cambio...

Latin American cities are characterized by a high correlation between the location chosen by poor households and their income level. However, it is difficult to identify to what extent they live there by choice –because it maximizes the returns to their efforts- or by restrictions that pull...

Introducción. Promover la mayor integración física en las Américas tiene como objetivo desencadenar efectos cascada sobre la productividad, el comercio intrarregional y la inserción de los países en la economía mundial. La adecuación y expansión de la infraestructura regional,...

Este informe plantea los elementos para hacer viable el uso de los Certificados de Potencial Adicional de Construcción (CEPAC) como instrumento de financiamiento de obras públicas en la ciudad de Santiago de Cali en Colombia.