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Making Sense of Incentives: Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity

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  • Timothy J. Bartik

    (W.E. Upjohn Institute)

Abstract

In evaluating incentives, everything depends on the details: how much in incentives it takes to truly cause a firm to locate or expand, the multiplier effects, the effects of jobs on employment rates, how jobs affect tax revenue versus public spending needs. Do benefits of incentives exceed costs? This depends on the details. This book is about those details. What magnitudes of incentive effects are plausible? How do benefits and costs vary with incentive designs? What advice can be given to evaluators? What is an ideal incentive policy? Answering these questions about incentives depends on a model of incentive effects, which this book provides.

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  • Timothy J. Bartik, 2019. "Making Sense of Incentives: Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity," Books from Upjohn Press, W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, number msi, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:upj:ubooks:msi
    DOI: 10.17848/9780880996693
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    Keywords

    Business incentives; tax incentives; job creation; local economic development; multipliers; evaluation;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
    • R23 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population
    • R38 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - Government Policy
    • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy

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