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...
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...
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...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Jul 21, 2019 | Incentive programs, Uncategorized
The Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO) recently released the report Transforming Ideas into Advances: Best Practices in State and Regional Bioscience Economic Development Initiatives. This biennial report provides a good summary of state initiatives serving...
by Ellen D. Harpel | Jun 18, 2019 | Uncategorized
Community researchers raised several thoughtful questions about the impact of gig and independent work at a well-attended session on Measuring the Gig Economy at the State and Local Level during the C2ER annual conference in St. Louis. The Council for Community and...
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