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Assessing the effects of local taxation using microgeographic data

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  • Gilles Duranton
  • Laurent Gobillon
  • Henry G Overman

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We study the impact of local taxation on the location and growth of firms. Our empiricalmethodology pairs establishments across jurisdictional boundaries to estimate the impact of taxation. Our approach improves on existing work as it corrects for unobserved establishment heterogeneity, for unobserved time-varying site specific effects, and for the endogeneity of local taxation. Applied to data for English manufacturing establishments we find that local taxation has a negative impact on employment growth, but no effect on entry.

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Paper provided by University of Toronto, Department of Economics in its series Working Papers with number tecipa-247.

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Length: 40 pages
Date of creation: 24 Jul 2006
Handle: RePEc:tor:tecipa:tecipa-247
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Keywords: Local taxation; spatial differencing; borders; regression discontinuity;

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  • H22 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Incidence
  • H71 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations - - - State and Local Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
  • R38 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Real Estate Markets, Spatial Production Analysis, and Firm Location - - - Government Policy

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