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2011): “Can Tax Breaks Beat Geography? Lessons from the French Enterprise Zone Experience,” mimeo
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@MISC{Briant_2011):“can,
author = {Anthony Briant and Miren Lafourcade and Benoît Schmutz},
title = {2011): “Can Tax Breaks Beat Geography? Lessons from the French Enterprise Zone Experience,” mimeo},
year = {}
}
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Abstract
This paper shows that geography matters to the effectiveness of place-based policies, using the French enterprise zone program as a case study. We build a series of original indicators of spatial isolation for treated and non treated neighborhoods. We show that only the least isolated treated neighborhoods were able to draw benefits from tax breaks and social exemptions, both in terms of firms settlements and job creations. Moreover, whereas the program mostly worked through a displacement effect on pre-existing firms, we show that urban geography was a clear determinant of the decision to create new firms from scratch.
Keyphrases
break beat geography french enterprise zone experience original indicator spatial isolation displacement effect job creation urban geography tax break place-based policy clear determinant social exemption case study geography matter new firm french enterprise zone program pre-existing firm firm settlement
