Arbeitspapier

Shops and the city

We report three findings: (1) Using evidence from chain bankruptcies and data on 12-18 million establishments per year, we show that large retailers produce significant positive spillovers. (2) Local governments respond to the size of these externalities. When a town's boundaries allow it to capture a larger share of retail spillovers, it is more likely to offer retail subsidies. (3) These subsidies crowd out private-sector mechanisms that also subsidize large retailers, such as shopping malls. These facts provide powerful evidence of the Coase theorem at work and highlight a concern for local development policies even when externalities can be targeted.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: AEI Economics Working Paper ; No. 2014-03

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Thema
subsidies
retail

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Veuger, Stan
Shoag, Daniel
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
(wo)
Washington, DC
(wann)
2016

Handle
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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Veuger, Stan
  • Shoag, Daniel
  • American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

Entstanden

  • 2016

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