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Tech Incentive Evaluation Prompts Program Changes

Tech Incentive Evaluation Prompts Program Changes

by Ellen D. Harpel | Aug 19, 2019 | Program Evaluation

Last November the District of Columbia’s Office of Revenue Analysis (ORA) released its “Review of Economic Development Tax Expenditures,” including an assessment of the city’s incentives for Qualified High Technology Companies (QHTC). By May, the DC Council had...
Presidential aspirants include incentives in plans

Presidential aspirants include incentives in plans

by Ellen D. Harpel | Aug 8, 2019 | Incentive programs

My Twitter feed this week included tweets about incentives from two Democratic candidates for president.  We need to align the environmental incentives with the financial incentives and make sure that people can actually make money off of new technologies. These need...
Findings on state film incentives

Findings on state film incentives

by Ellen D. Harpel | Aug 1, 2019 | Incentive programs, Program Evaluation

Are state film incentives effective? A National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper from Patrick Button examines whether the presence of these incentives affected filming location decisions, employment, wages, and spillover effects for the period 1977-2018. Film...

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