Can Tax Breaks Beat Geography? Lessons from the French Enterprise Zone Experience

Briant, Anthony; Lafourcade, Miren; Schmutz, Benoît

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“…The absence of impact is also consistent with Devereux et al (2007) in finding that firms are less responsive to government subsidies in areas where there are fewer existing plants in their industry. It is also arguably consistent with results by Briant et al (2012) on the impact of geographical constraints on the effectiveness of local tax breaks.…”

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Replacing churches and mason lodges? Tax exemptions and rural development

Behaghel

Lorenceau

Quantin

2015

Journal of Public Economics

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Replacing churches and mason lodges? Tax exemptions and rural development

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Lorenceau

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2015

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“…Poor identification of  can be traced to the fact that, unlike for other parameters,  is not linked to a readily identifiable feature of the data, and is only identified by a functional form assumption on Ψ( e ). 10 The Table also reports standard errors, obtained 9 In estimation, we treat the spatial distribution of unemployment and vacancies as exogenous, as in most of the literature on the estimation of matching functions (see Petrongolo and Pissarides, 2001, for a survey). This is consistent with evidence from the policy simulation exercises described in Section IV, showing that the returns to job search -as measured by the probability of leaving unemployment or filling a vacancy -are not very responsive to local shocks.…”

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How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model

Manning

Petrongolo

2017

American Economic Review

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This paper models the optimal search strategies of the unemployed across space to characterize local labor markets. Our methodology allows for linkages between numerous areas, while preserving tractability. We estimate that labor markets are quite local, as the attractiveness of jobs to applicants sharply decays with distance. Also, workers are discouraged from searching in areas with strong competition from other job-seekers. However, as labor markets overlap, a local stimulus or transport improvements have modest effects on local outcomes, because ripple effects in job applications dilute their impact across a series of overlapping markets. (JEL J61, J64, R23, R58)

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“…The role of water bodies in urban economies have been investigated from perspectives such as the constraining of land supply due to lakes and oceans (Rose 1989) and the economic attractiveness of coastal living (Rappaport and Sachs 2003). Geographical boundaries have also been used instrumentally toward explaining disparities in the stimulative effects of local business policies (Briant, LaFourcade, and Schmutz 2015), to investigate cultural barriers to economic activity (Falck et al 2012), and to test for housing price response to local school quality (Gibbons, Machinb, and Silva 2013).…”

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The Z-Axis: Elevation Gradient Effects in Urban America

Becker

2016

SSRN Journal

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Abstract1 This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of hilliness effects in American urban communities. Using data from seventeen cities, robust relationships are established between elevation patterns and density and income gradients. We find that high-income households display strong preference for high-altitude, high-unevenness locations, leading to spatial income stratification at both the city and tract-level. We further analyze potential causes of this propensity: micro-climate, crime, congestion, view effects, and use of public transit. We conclude that the role of elevation in urban systems should not be neglected. Multi-dimensional spatial methods are crucial to investigations of cities with substantial unevenness. Redistributive social and economic policies must struggle with a fundamental, topographical dimension to inequality. JEL: J10, R11, R12

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Can Tax Breaks Beat Geography? Lessons from the French Enterprise Zone Experience

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Replacing churches and mason lodges? Tax exemptions and rural development

Replacing churches and mason lodges? Tax exemptions and rural development

How Local Are Labor Markets? Evidence from a Spatial Job Search Model

The Z-Axis: Elevation Gradient Effects in Urban America

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