{"title":"Economic Development Incentives, Reported Job Creation, and Local Employment","authors":"Paul F. Byrne","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3169576","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3169576","url":null,"abstract":"State and local policy makers continue to utilize and emphasize economic development incentives to attract and retain employers, with tax increment financing (TIF) being one of the more popular incentives. Recently, several states increased reporting requirements for local economic development agencies in an attempt to ensure that targeted incentives are achieving their stated objectives. However, the economic validity of these reported jobs depends heavily on the extent to which the incentives draw new economic activity into an area. In this paper, I examine the credibility of the number of jobs reported by local economic development agencies in Missouri as having been created or retained by TIF. The analysis studies the impact of these reported jobs on county employment, as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Results suggest that the number of jobs reportedly created by TIF districts do not significantly impact county employment.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"48 1","pages":"11-28"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2018-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.2139/ssrn.3169576","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"68568396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Searching for Isard’s Regional Essence","authors":"Douglas P. Woodward","doi":"10.52324/001C.8019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001C.8019","url":null,"abstract":"At the inception of the Southern Regional Science Association in the early 1960s, Walter Isard maintained that areal regions are fundamental units of observation and analysis. To this day, understanding the special significance of regions motivates much of our empirical research. In my address, I argue that regional fixed effects estimates from regression analysis can help us comprehend the distinctive character of areal units. This paper offers two examples from my research. First, I present the results of a regression model that explains regional knowledge spillovers in U.S. counties. Santa Clara County (the Silicon Valley) has by far the largest fixed effect estimate of any U.S. county. Overall, the county level fixed effects for knowledge spillovers follow a pattern of rapid exponential decay. Next, I inspect neighborhood fixed effects taken from a hedonic housing price model of the Charleston, South Carolina region. The results suggest a clear preference for coastal proximity as reflected in housing prices. For neighborhoods away from the coast, the fixed effects estimates exhibit a steep decline toward zero. Like the Silicon Valley’s regional advantage in knowledge, beachfront neighborhoods benefit from an exclusive, time invariant advantage that is hard, if not impossible, to replicate in space.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"121-135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-06-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46447871","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Min-Yang A. Lee, C. Speir, Andrew Carr-Harris, S. Benjamin
{"title":"Geographic Concentration of the Atlantic Sea Scallop Fishery","authors":"Min-Yang A. Lee, C. Speir, Andrew Carr-Harris, S. Benjamin","doi":"10.52324/001C.8026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001C.8026","url":null,"abstract":"The concentration patterns in the Northeast US Sea Scallop industry are examined from 1996-2014 using generalized indices of concentration and exploratory spatial data analysis. Absolute and relative Theil indices of concentration are computed to describe the regional pattern of concentration within ports over time. Moran's I provides a complementary measure of concentration of activity among neighboring ports. The Moran scatterplots and confidence plots provide insight into local patterns of concentration in this industry. The analysis reveals large changes from year to year in the geographic concentration of the scallop industry, which is likely to be related to natural variability of the environment and regulations enacted by fisheries managers in response to the variability of the environment.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"47 1","pages":"25-46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2017-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45077078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A. Neto, Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli, Alexandre Rabelo
{"title":"Looking Behind the Scenes: An Assessment of the Interdependence of Brazilian Cultural Industries","authors":"A. Neto, Fernando Salgueiro Perobelli, Alexandre Rabelo","doi":"10.52324/001c.8000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.52324/001c.8000","url":null,"abstract":"How important is Brazil’s cultural industries to its economy? We provide an answer to this question by evaluating the interdependence of the cultural activities in the Brazilian production structure and its evolution over the last few years (2005 – 2009). To accomplish this, we disaggregate 13 cultural economic industries in the Brazilian input-output table and calculate several indexes, such as, the production multiplier, linkage indexes, fields of influence and extraction analysis. Results show that the only cultural sector with high links to other sectors in the production structure is Telecommunication, edition and news agencies and that this sector provides the greatest loss in output when removed from the economy. Moreover, the sectors Jewelry, music, instruments and toys, and Manufacture of telecommunication equipment have output multipliers higher than the average of the economy.","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2015-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81169414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PySAL: A Python Library of Spatial Analytical Methods","authors":"S. Rey, L. Anselin","doi":"10.1007/978-3-642-03647-7_11","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03647-7_11","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44865,"journal":{"name":"Review of Regional Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"5-27"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/978-3-642-03647-7_11","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"51069475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}