Making Sense of Incentives: Taming Business Incentives to Promote Prosperity

Timothy J. Bartik
Additional contact information
Timothy J. Bartik: W.E. Upjohn Institute

in Books from Upjohn Press from W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research

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.

Keywords: Business incentives; tax incentives; job creation; local economic development; multipliers; evaluation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H71 J23 R23 R38 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
ISBN: paper 9780880996686 ebook 97808809956693
Note: PDF of full text is available
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (21)

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.17848/9780880996693 (text/html)
All books are copyrighted.

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:upj:ubooks:msi

Access Statistics for this book

More books in Books from Upjohn Press from W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research 300 S. Westnedge Ave. Kalamazoo, MI 49007 USA. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by ().