Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- The Authors -- Preface -- 1 - Local Economic Development Incentives in the United States -- 2 - Evidence on the Influence of Local Economic Development Incentives -- 3 - Local Incentive Programs and Spatial Mismatch in Metropolitan Detroit -- 4 - A Model...

Economic development incentives are offered by local governments in the United States to retain or attract manufacturing and/or commercial enterprises. We are concerned with "first wave" incentives that began in the United States in the 1970s and continue until today. These include:...

Anderson and Wassmer examine the use and effectiveness of local economic development incentives within a specific region, the Detroit metropolitan area. The Detroit area serves as a good example, they say, because of the area's 20-plus year track record of its communities offering the gamut of...

The use of local economic development incentives within a metropolitan area has undergone less analysis than incentives that attempt to alter interregional business location decisions. This is unfortunate because other factors that influence where business resides are constant across cities in a...