Untargeted Incentives and Entrepreneurship: An Analysis of Local Fiscal Policies and Small Businesses in Florida

Hai Guo and Shaoming Cheng
Additional contact information
Hai Guo: Florida International University
Shaoming Cheng: Florida International University

The Review of Regional Studies, 2018, vol. 48, issue 1, 119-135

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of local taxes and local fiscal expenditures on small businesses in Florida. Our analysis sheds light on the linkage between small business development and local fiscal decisions, which seem to have no obvious or direct connection with targeted business assistance and incentives. Spatial panel regression models are calibrated with county-level tax, expenditure, and social and economic factors for the period of 2008-2013. The estimation results suggest that local tax and expenditure structure and decisions affect the number of small business establishments not only in their “home†counties but also in their neighboring jurisdictions.

Keywords: small business; fiscal policy; entrepreneurship (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H71 H72 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/1001 To View On Journal Page
http://journal.srsa.org/ojs/index.php/RRS/article/view/1001/858 To Download Article

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:rre:publsh:v48:y:2018:i:1:p:119-135

Access Statistics for this article

The Review of Regional Studies is currently edited by Tammy Leonard & Lei Zhang and Lei Zhang

More articles in The Review of Regional Studies from Southern Regional Science Association Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Tammy Leonard & Lei Zhang ().