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Do Billion-Dollar Tax Breaks Deliver More Bang for the Buck?
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Researchers Yoojin Lee, Shaphan Ng, and Aruhn Venkat have shown in their study that large corporate subsidies might spur local firms to innovate even if they don't receive direct subsidies themselves. While new knowledge may not be contained within the subsidized firm, the stronger effects of innovation were seen in areas with a high presence of high tech manufacturing, laboratories and educational institutions. The study provides evidence to reevaluate current subsidy models and consider potential innovation and knowledge spillovers when assessing the value of such incentives.
A multibillion-dollar tax subsidy usually comes with a familiar sales pitch: jobs, investment, ribbon cutting, repeat. The spreadsheet looks clean until someone asks the question that makes a finance committee reach for more coffee: Would the company have...
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