Rethinking Investment Incentives : : Trends and Policy Options / / ed. by Perrine Toledano, Ana Teresa Tavares-Lehmann, Lise Johnson, Lisa Sachs.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Bellak, Christian,; Brennan, Louis,; Gugler, Philippe,; Harpel, Ellen,; James, Sebastian,; Johnson, Lise,; Karl, Joachim,; Krakoff, Charles,; Leibrecht, Markus,; Lundan, Sarianna M.,; Ruane, Frances,; Sachs, Lisa,; Steele, Chris,; Tavares-Lehmann, Ana Teresa,; Thomas, Kenneth P.,; Toledano, Perrine,; Zhan, James,
• HerausgeberIn: Johnson, Lise,; Sachs, Lisa,; Tavares-Lehmann, Ana Teresa,; Toledano, Perrine,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 11 figures

Governments often use direct subsidies or tax credits to encourage investment and promote economic growth and other development objectives. Properly designed and implemented, these incentives can advance a wide range of policy objectives (increasing employment, promoting sustainability, and reducing inequality). Yet since design and implementation are complicated, incentives have been associated with rent-seeking and wasteful public spending.This collection illustrates the different types and uses of these initiatives worldwide and examines the institutional steps that extend their value. By combining economic analysis with development impacts, regulatory issues, and policy options, these essays show not only how to increase the mobility of capital so that cities, states, nations, and regions can better attract, direct, and retain investments but also how to craft policy and compromise to ensure incentives endure.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- Part I. Investment Incentives: An Introduction -- 2. Types of Investment Incentives -- 3. Definitions, Motivations, and Locational Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment -- Part II. A Global Overview of Investment Incentives -- 4. The Use of Investment Incentives: The Cases of R&D-Related Incentives and International Investment Agreements -- 5. Incentives in the European Union -- 6. Incentives in the United States -- 7. Tax Incentives Around the World -- Part III. Designing Incentives Programs to Get Value for Money and Achieve Intended Goals -- 8. A Holistic Approach to Investment Incentives -- 9. Investment Incentives for Sustainable Development -- 10. Cost-Benefit Analysis of Investment Incentives -- Part IV. Reducing Incentives Competition: Regulatory Efforts to Limit "Races to the Bottom" -- 11. Regulation of Investment Incentives: National and Subnational Efforts to Regulate Competition for Investment Through the Use of Incentives -- 12. Regulation of Investment Incentives: Instruments at an International/Supranational Level -- 13. Conclusions: Outstanding Issues on the Design and Implementation of Incentives Policies -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Index