A program evaluation of the Louisville Enterprise Zone : a study of local planning and economic development.

Lambert,; Thomas, E. N.

doi:10.18297/etd/788

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“…The results with the IV approach suggest that the EZ policy has significantly boosted the growth of manufacturing and service activities, but not the growth of other industries. coverage between the Louisville/Jefferson County Information Consortium data and the coverage in Lambert (1997). 2.…”

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“…Therefore, the qualification requirement of continuously increasing investments benefits new businesses, but it creates barriers for existing firms. This has 198019811982198319841985198619871988198919901992199419951997199819992001200220032004Funkhouser & Lorenz, 1987Rubin & Wilder, 1989Rubin, 1990 Grasso been confirmed by some empirical studies (Greenbaum & Engberg, 2004;Wallace, 1999). Lambert and Coomes (2001) use multiple methods to study the Louisville EZ program, including a descriptive study, an SS study, and a cost-benefit analysis.…”

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Impacts of Enterprise Zone Policy on Industry Growth

Zhang

2015

Economic Development Quarterly

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This study evaluates the impacts of the Louisville Enterprise Zone (EZ) program on the growth of different industries, covering a 20-year (1980-2000) time span. The research compares the preprogram (1980)(1981)(1982)(1983)(1984)(1985)(1986)(1987)(1988)(1989)(1990) and postprogram (1990)(1991)(1992)(1993)(1994)(1995)(1996)(1997)(1998)(1999)(2000) growth. A shift-share analysis first compares the regional competitiveness of EZ and non-EZ areas in 1990 and 2000, and suggests that most industries in EZ areas have been gaining strength. Five regression equations are estimated to quantify the effects of the EZ program on different industries. An instrumental variable approach is developed to deal with the possible issue of endogeneity during the EZ designation process. Results suggest that the Louisville EZ program has significantly increased the growth of manufacturing and service activities, and the program achieved its expected goals in the long run.

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Impacts of Enterprise Zone Policy on Industry Growth

Zhang

2015

Economic Development Quarterly

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“…This was done by the state, and according to the enabling legislation, as a way to help poor and blight-ridden inner-city communities through private-sector economic revitalization through the stimulation of small business activity. However, as pointed out in the research of Lambert (2003), Lambert and Nelson (2002), the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission (2002), and the Office of State Budget Director (2002), the emphasis of the state’s program quickly became one focused on businesses, especially larger employers wherein one half of the EZ’s tax incentives went toward the eight largest employers, most of which were in Louisville (e.g., Ford Motor Company, General Electric [now Haier], and United Parcel Service (UPS), among others). 1 Louisville accounted for about two thirds of the state EZ program activities during the life of the program from 1983 to 2003, and at one time had around 1,200 registered firms participating in the program and eligible for incentives.…”

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“…As noted by Lambert (1997), Cummings and Lambert (1997), and Lambert and Coomes (2001), enterprise zones (EZs) in Louisville and in other Kentucky cities were allowed to start operations by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1983. This was done by the state, and according to the enabling legislation, as a way to help poor and blight-ridden inner-city communities through private-sector economic revitalization through the stimulation of small business activity.…”

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“…Also as noted in some of the papers cited above, both the local and national press wrote articles about the Louisville EZ program, which raised many policy issues (Cummings & Lambert, 1997; Lambert, 1997). Two major issues were a lack of accountability and fairness in the program (Heath, 1991, 1992); another was its large and continuous growing size (Davidson, 1992).…”

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Short-Term Versus Long-Term Effects of the Louisville Enterprise Zone Incentives: A Response to Sumei Zhang

Lambert

2020

Economic Development Quarterly

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Zhang wrote that the Louisville enterprise zone (EZ) was more successful than what previous research showed and that variations in research design have led to conflicting or mixed reviews of many local economic development policies that are based on the EZ concept. She mentions a study and an article on the Louisville, Kentucky EZ and implies the time horizon used to evaluate it was too short. This Forum/Letter to the Editor points out that the Louisville EZ went through multiple transformations and expansions over its history from 1983 to 2003, and as noted in the first of two studies, the original zone showed virtually no progress from 1983 to 1990. Several other unpublished papers pointed out the same results when the original EZ and other parts of the expanded EZ were analyzed up to the last years of the 20th century. Finally, this Forum/Letter to the Editor argues that and provides reasons for the methodology employed by Lambert and Coomes as a superior way of analyzing the Louisville EZ when compared with the methods employed by Zhang. The main reason why Zhang showed success in the EZ is because she mostly evaluates it in its final form in the late 1990s after it had annexed many sections of Jefferson County, which were not as nearly economically disadvantaged as the original Louisville EZ established in 1983.

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