Tale of Two Cities
Mike Quigley (Cook County Commisioner) • April 2007... read more ...

A Quasi-Experimental Test of Large Retail Store Impacts on Regional Labor Markets: The Case of Cabela’s Retail Outlets
Forthcoming, Journal of Regional Analysis & Policy • December 2006
This study applies a quasi-experimental method for performing impact analysis of Cabela’s retail outlet in six U.S. counties from 1998 through 2003. Following a rejection of endogeneity in the entrance ... read more ...

Take a Gander at a Company That Deserves Applause
Allegheny Institute for Public Policy • Aug 1,2006 There’s a major retailer that rejects taxpayer subsidies? As strange as it might seem in Pennsylvania, it’s true. Gander Mountain- a major retailer of outdoor sporting goods-opposes tax breaks for retailers ... read more ...

What's wrong with development subsidies?
Good Jobs First • Feb. 2, 2006
There are many problems with both the concept of development subsidies and the way
in which they are typically implemented, monitored, and enforced. Criticism of
subsidies and calls ... read more ...

What are development subsidies and how do they work?
Good Jobs First • Feb. 2, 2006
Development subsidies are money, tax breaks, and in-kind benefits given to companies to offset the costs of opening or expanding a new facility. Subsidies take many forms, from reduced tax rates, to cash grants ... read more ...

Case Study Undermines Cabela's Claims
Good Jobs First • Jan. 12, 2006
Cabela's has been selling supplies for hunting, fishing and other outdoor sports for more than four decades, but in recent years it has gone from being a retailer to being a retail phenomenon. read more ...

Ask Dr. Dave: Explaining Politics and Policies
Jan. 9, 2006
Dr. Dave: Do state and local economic development tax incentives help state and local
economies? A. In the vast majority of cases, the answer is no. read more ...

Subsidizing Retail Fails As A Job Producer
The Allegheny Institute for Public Policy • Sept. 29, 2005
The seven county region known as the Pittsburgh metro area continues to exhibit very anemic job gains,adding only 8,000 workers (an 0.8 percent increase) to private sector payrolls over the last ... read more...

Economic Impact Analysis Proposed Bass Pro Shop
Florence, Alabama Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods • 2005
Projections for the proposed Florence Bass Pro Shop (BPS) were based on the revenue generated by a similar sized store that exists in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. This store was chosen because of the ... read more ...

A Tale of Two Sporting Goods Stores
Michigan Privatization Report • Summer 2002
Imagine for a moment that you own the Detroit Tigers. You and your spouse made great sacrifices to purchase and develop the team, but with luck and pluck managed to build the Tigers into a popular ... read more ...

Government as Developer: Why MAPS for Fish is a Bad Idea
Oklahoma Council of Public Affairs • May 21, 2002
Oklahoma City’s proposal to build a Sportsman’s Center for Bass Pro Shops is unwise public policy. As a matter of principle, government should not be in the development business. Taxing some citizens ... read more ...

The Impact of “Big-Box” Building Materials Stores on Host Towns and Surrounding Counties in a Midwestern State
Iowa State University • Aug. 5, 2001
In the last 10 or so years, “big-box” building materials stores such as Home Depot,Lowe’s and Menard’s have proliferated in many regional trade centers across the Midwest. Many economists believe ... read more ...

Congress Should End the Economic War Among the States
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis • March 1995
[The Constitution] was framed upon the theory that the peoples of the several statesmust sink or swim together, and that in the long run prosperity and salvation are inunion and not division. Justice Benjamin ... read more ...