Tax Incentives and Economic Growth
Title | Tax Incentives and Economic Growth PDF eBook |
Author | Barry Bosworth |
Publisher | Brookings Institution Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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In this study the author attempts to clarify the basic analytic issues about incentives and to summarize the empirical evidence, and examines the difficulties of coordinating tax incentive measures with fiscal and monetary policies.
Making Sense of Incentives
Title | Making Sense of Incentives PDF eBook |
Author | Timothy J. Bartik |
Publisher | W.E. Upjohn Institute |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 2019-10-15 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0880996684 |
Bartik provides a clear and concise overview of how state and local governments employ economic development incentives in order to lure companies to set up shop—and provide new jobs—in needy local labor markets. He shows that many such incentive offers are wasteful and he provides guidance, based on decades of research, on how to improve these programs.
Incentive and Economic Development Rates
Title | Incentive and Economic Development Rates PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 34 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Electric utilities |
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Bidding for Business
Title | Bidding for Business PDF eBook |
Author | John Edwin Anderson |
Publisher | W.E. Upjohn Institute |
Pages | 258 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0880992026 |
Annotation Anderson and Wassmer (economics, U. of Nebraska-Lincoln and public policy and administration, California State U.-Sacramento, respectively) examine the use and effectiveness of local economic development incentives within a region or metropolitan area through a case examination of Detroit, Michigan. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Directory of Incentives for Business Investment and Development in the United States
Title | Directory of Incentives for Business Investment and Development in the United States PDF eBook |
Author | National Association of State Development Agencies (U.S.) |
Publisher | The Urban Insitute |
Pages | 796 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780877665014 |
Incentive/economic Development Rates
Title | Incentive/economic Development Rates PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth W. Costello |
Publisher | |
Pages | 48 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Electric utilities |
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Do Economic Incentives Work? Evaluating the Effect of Incentives Designed to Attract Investment on State-Industry Growth Rates
Title | Do Economic Incentives Work? Evaluating the Effect of Incentives Designed to Attract Investment on State-Industry Growth Rates PDF eBook |
Author | Christian Conroy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Political planning |
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Economic development scholars remain divided over whether economic incentives designed to attract businesses to a locality ultimately promote job growth, higher wages and economic development or just give away taxpayer dollars. While some research has found that economic incentives may nudge a company to choose one location over a similar location, others have argued that companies make location decisions based on strategic considerations like human capital and supply chains, and not based on economic incentives. At the same time, even if companies are choosing to locate to a particular locality based on an economic incentive package, it is not clear that the growth they bring is enough to compensate for the loss of tax revenue. In this paper we evaluate the impact of five different types of state-level economic incentives on GDP growth. We use a novel Panel Database on Incentives and Taxes established by the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research that contains data on marginal business taxes and business incentives for 45 industries in 47 cities in 33 states collected from 1990 to 2015. Using several estimation strategies, including short and long term two-way fixed effects regression modeling and propensity score stratification, we find that economic incentives in the aggregate have a positive impact on state-industry GDP growth but the effects differ across economic incentive types.