Policies targeting individual companies for economic development incentives, such as tax
holidays and abatements, are generally seen as inefficient, economically costly, and …

An annual panel of employment at the census tract level for the Atlanta region is used to
estimate the change in a tract's share of regional employment as a function of a variety of tax …

The past decade has been one of the more turbulent in terms of the economic pressures felt
by localities. Through three national-level surveys taken at five-year intervals over the …

Government economic development programmes provide opportunities for firms to leverage
financial incentives for business expansion and relocation. This article examines the ability …

This research explores the relative effectiveness of a comprehensive set of local economic
development incentives and focuses on two questions: What contributions do common …

This research provides an exhaustive review of US property tax abatement programs and
identifies and compares critical structural differences of abatement programs across states …

Using the hedonic pricing approach, this paper investigates how the information released on
public registries of contaminated and potentially contaminated sites affects nearby …

Although policy evaluations have raised significant concerns about the effectiveness of
individual incentives such as tax abatements and special taxing districts, they beg the …

Governments use economic development incentives to attract new investment and retain
existing businesses. Empirical evidence for their effectiveness remains inconclusive. This …

Many countries use location incentives programs to attract investment into a recipient
country as a whole or to priority regions, with the goal of promoting growth. The authors …