التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
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Investment incentives attract foreign direct investment: evidence from the great recession. |
| المؤلفون: |
Katitas, Aycan1 (AUTHOR) akatitas@andrew.cmu.edu, Pandya, Sonal2 (AUTHOR) |
| المصدر: |
Public Choice. Jul2024, Vol. 200 Issue 1/2, p323-345. 23p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*INVESTORS, *PUBLIC spending, *TAX incentives, *FOREIGN investments, AMERICAN Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009, INCENTIVE (Psychology), GUBERNATORIAL elections |
| مستخلص: |
Do investment incentives influence private firms' location decisions? Whereas prior research emphasizes tax incentives, we focus on incentives that require real-time government spending including job training and infrastructure. Real incentives influence where firms invest by resolving costly information asymmetries, and are subject to budget constraints that give rise to political targeting. This paper evaluates how real incentives shape the location decisions of foreign firms, investors who suffer from acute information asymmetries. We leverage features of the Great Recession and the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act stimulus, which temporarily increased states' fiscal capacity to fund real incentives. During the narrow stimulus spending window, states that received more federal Medicaid stimulus—instrumented with the exogenous component of the Act's funding formula—attracted more foreign direct investment (FDI) and increased state spending on real incentives. The stimulus window approximately coincides with FDI's temporary geographic expansion into US counties that lacked a history of these investments. On average, these counties had narrow vote margins in the prior gubernatorial election and garnered more state real incentive spending. These correlates are pronounced in counties with idle industrial capacity and in states whose governors sought re-election. Tax incentives had no effect on FDI. These findings have important implications for the efficacy of investment incentives and the political economy of industrial policy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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