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Do Tax Incentives Affect Local Economic Growth? What Mean Impacts Miss in the Analysis of Enterprise Zone Policies

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Daniele Bondonio

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Geographically-targeted tax incentives remain popular initiatives in response to deteriorating economic conditions of urban and industrial areas. This paper exploits the exogenous variations of the U.S. state Enterprise Zone programs to estimate the impact of various incentive features on a number of dimensions of local economic growth. The econometric analysis uses plant level data to sort out growth outcomes into gross flows separately accounted for by new, existing, and vanishing businesses in the target areas. Results offer empirical evidence to support a number of specific policy recommendations and show that the impact of the incentives has more complex dynamics than those revealed by the null mean impact estimates obtained from analyzing net growth outcomes.

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Paper provided by Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau in its series Working Papers with number 03-17.

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Date of creation: Sep 2003
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Keywords: Tax incentives Local economic growth Enterprise Zones Program evaluation

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O1 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development
R5 - Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics - - Regional Government Analysis
C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data

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