Development Zones (DZs) are an important spatial carrier for the urban government to guide the allocation of industrial resources, and tax incentives are one of the important policy instruments in the DZs. This study combines Basic Tax Competition (BTC) theory, New Economic Geography (NEG)...

Qatar offers specific Free Zones in order to encourage Foreign Direct Investment, as Free Zones Enterprises can be fully owned by non-Qataris, which is not the case of companies located in Non-Free Zones areas in Qatar. In fact, Free Zones offer huge tax incentives and do not provide any...

Place-based investment tax incentives known as enterprise zone laws have historically been used as a method for subsidizing investment in low-income communities. Scholarly and policy treatments of enterprise zone laws commonly discuss them as if there is a unified approach to designing these...

Many governments in developing countries have pursued policies targeting specific geographic areas over the past several decades. However, only a few have rigorously evaluated the causal impact of these interventions. This paper examines the effectiveness of a prominent place-based policy in...

We study how the employment effects of enterprise zones vary with their location, implementation, and administration, based on evidence from California. We use new establishment-level data and geographic mapping methods, coupled with a survey of enterprise zone administrators. Overall, the...