In this review, I integrate a wide range of literature that has examined how the “geographic
mobility” of high-skilled workers creates value for organizations and individuals. Drawing on …

Early reviews of the academic literature on the economic effects of state and local taxes and
expenditures suggested that not enough was known upon which to base policy. The reviews …

The identification of strategic interactions among local governments is typically plagued by
endogeneity problems. I exploit the fact that local jurisdictions located close to a state border …

This article explores the role of institutional settings in determining spatial variation in urban
sprawl across Europe. We first synthesize the emerging literature that links land use policies …

This paper examines the local impacts of shale gas development (SGD). We use a hedonic
framework and exploit a discrete change in expectations about SGD caused by the New …

This paper studies the interstate effects of decentralized taxation and spending when work-
from-home allows fully remote work from another state. In this setting, a state's population …

We investigate the ability of small business borrowers to signal to investors their credit
worthiness through the use of text descriptions in the peer‐to‐peer lending market …

In this paper, we examine how government policy affects the sorting of industries across
jurisdictions using the New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC) program. When estimating the …

Entrepreneurship plays a vital role in the economy, yet there exists little well-identified
research into the effects of taxes on startup activity. Using recently developed county-level …

Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is
typically exercised by multiple municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we …