{"id":35,"date":"2018-01-01T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-01T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/?p=35"},"modified":"2023-02-01T14:51:21","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T13:51:21","slug":"agglomeration-economies-taxable-rents-and-government-capture-evidence-from-a-place-based-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/2018\/01\/agglomeration-economies-taxable-rents-and-government-capture-evidence-from-a-place-based-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Agglomeration Economies, Taxable Rents, And Government Capture: Evidence From A Place-Based Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>with Helen Simpson, <em>Journal of Economic Geography,\u00a0<\/em>18(2):\u00a0319-353,\u00a02018. <a href=\"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/files\/2023\/02\/agglorents.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">See publication<\/a> \/ <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.voxeu.org\/article\/industrial-clusters-subsidies-and-local-capture\" target=\"_blank\">Article in VoxEU<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We study how industry-level agglomeration economies affect government policy. Using administrative data on firm subsidies in economically lagging regions of Great Britain, we test two alternative hypotheses. Economic geography models imply that firms at an industry\u2019s core can sustain higher tax burdens or require lower subsidies than firms in more remote locations. Conversely, political economy models predict firms at the industry\u2019s core to be more successful at lobbying government, particularly at the sub-national level, thus obtaining more favourable fiscal treatment. We find that local government agencies structure subsidy offers to favour pre-existing employment in locally agglomerated industries, behaviour more in line with theories of policy capture than with economic geography models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-peer-reviewed"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.unil.ch\/mariusbrulhart\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}