The paper investigates the broadening area of research utilizing micro-geographic economic analysis to conduct evaluations of area-based policies implemented at a micro-geographic level. It offers the first extensive, critical examination and synthesis of this subset of work including its...

We examine the body of evidence on Enterprise Zone policy with the objective of assessing its role in broader place-based industrial strategy. We conduct an extensive review, consolidate the empirical evidence into one place and examine it according to economic impact by zone type. We identify...

Over the last twenty years, and particularly in the last ten, there has been a growing amount of economic and policy research conducted at a micro-geographic scale. This trend reflects both the continuing popularity of targeted spatial policies and the availability of new data and techniques to...