Property tax effects on intrametropolitan firm location: further evidence

Finney, Miles

doi:10.1080/135048594358311

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“…For some types of inducements, the desired additive effect was found only in cities that had a combination of characteristics that made them highly unattractive to manufacturers without an incentive offer. Finney (1994) offered a research note describing a conditional logit regression analysis of the probability of firms locating in 1 of 10 school districts in Harris County (Houston), Texas. He used data on 921 manufacturing plant openings over the years 1980, 1984, 1986, 1987, and 1988.…”

Section: Regression Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area

Anderson¹,

Wassmer²

2000

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Bidding for business : the efficacy of local economic development incentives in a metropolitan area / John E. Anderson and Robert W. Wassmer. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-88099-202-6 (cloth : alk. paper).-ISBN 0-88099-201-8 (paper : alk. paper) 1. Industrial development bonds-United States-Case studies. 2. Industrial development bonds-Michigan-Detroit Metropolitan Area. 3. Industrial promotion-United States-Case studies. 4. Industrial promotion-Michigan-Detroit Metropolitan Area. 5. Full employment policies-United States-Case studies. 6. Full employment policies-Michigan-Detroit Metropolitan Area. 7. Tax incentives-United States-Case studies. 8. Corporations-Taxation-United States-Case studies. 9. Corporations-United States-Finance-Case studies. I.

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Bidding for Business: The Efficacy of Local Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area

Anderson¹,

Wassmer²

2000

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“…See Carlton (1983),Bartik (1985),Lee and Wayslenko (1987),McConnell and Schwab (1990),Finney (1994), andLevinson (1996).…”

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“…Ten percent of the parent firms have two plants in Texas.13 SeeBartik (1985), andLevinson (1996). 14 SeeLevinson (1996), andFinney (1994).15 These 2,300 census tracts are a subset of possible locations in Texas. Feasible alternatives are limited to census tracts that are defined in both the 1980 and 1990 census.…”

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Effects of Socio-Economic and Input-Related Factors on Polluting Plants' Location Decisions

Wolverton¹

2009

The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis &Amp; Policy

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Many environmental justice studies argue that firms choose to locate waste sites or polluting plants disproportionately in minority or poor communities. However, it is not uncommon for these studies to match site or plant location to contemporaneous socioeconomic characteristics instead of to characteristics at the time of siting. While this may provide important information on disproportionate impacts currently faced by these communities, it does not describe the relationship at the time of siting. Also, variables that are important to a plant's location decision i.e., production and transportation costs are often not included. Without controlling for such variables, it is difficult to evaluate the relative importance of socioeconomic characteristics in a firm's initial location decision. This paper examines the role of community socioeconomic characteristics at the time of siting in the location decisions of manufacturing plants while controlling for other location-relevant factors such as input costs.When plant location is matched to current socioeconomic characteristics, results are consistent with what the environmental justice literature predicts: race is significant and positively related to plant location, while income is significant and negatively related to plant location. When plant location is matched to socioeconomic characteristics at the time of siting, empirical results suggest that race is no longer significant, though income is still significant and negatively related to plant location. Poverty rates are sometimes significant but act as a deterrent to plant location. Variables traditionally considered in the firm location literature such as land and labor costs, the quality of labor, and distance to rail are significant. The presence of pre-existing TRI plants in a neighborhood and average plant size are also significant.

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“…It has been reviewed by Carlton [1979], Wasylenko [1991], and most recently Buss [2001]. Some studies have found that tax differentials matter [Bartik 1985;Papke, 1991], Other studies have found that taxes matter only in some cases [Luger and Shetty, 1985;Coughlin, Terza and Arromdee, 1991;Friedman, Gerlowski and Silberman, 1992;Woodward, 1992;Finney, 1994;Guis and Frese, 2002]. Carlton [1979Carlton [ , 1983, for example, finds no effect on location decisions when controlling for taxes and the local business climate.…”

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confidence: 94%