Economic Development Readings

•  Alyward, Steven. 2005. Interjurisdictional Competition and Urban Area Fragmentation. [UMD dissertation] [file download]

•  Bartik, Tim. 1995. Economic Development Strategies. Upjohn Institute Working Paper. [file download]

•  Byrnes. Partricia, Marvel. Mary and Sridhar. Karla. 1999. An Equlibrium Model of Tax Abatement: Firm and City Characteristics as Determinates of Abatement Generosity. Urban Affairs Review 34(6): 805-19. [file download]

•  Clarke, Wes and Evans, Jenniffer. 1999. Development Impact Fees and the Acquisition of Infrastructure. Journal of Urban Affairs 21(3): 281-88. [file download]

•  Edmiston, Kelly D. and Turnbull, Geoffrey K.. 2003. Local Government Competition for Economic Development. Fiscal Research Program Report 83. Georgia State University. [file download]

•  Ellis, Stephen and Rogers, Cunthia. 1999. Local Economic Development as a Prisoners' Dilema: The Role of Business Climate. Paper presented at economic department seminar in University of Oklahoma. [file download]

•  Feoick, Richard. 2002. Quasi-Market Developoment Competition Framework. Journal of Urban Affairs 24: 123-42. [file download]

•  Feoick, Richard and Hyung-Jun Park. 2005. Bargaining, Networks and Institutional Collective Action in Local Economic Development. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Society of Public Administration, Millwaukee, Wisconsin, April 2-5. [file download]

•  Garcia-Mila, Teresa and Mcguire, Therese J. 2002. Tax Incentives and the City. Brookings-Wharton Papers on Urban Affairs 95-132. [file download]

•  Greenstone, Michael and Morett, Enrico. 2003. Bidding for Industrial Plants: Does Winning a Million Dollare Plant Increase Welfare?. National Bereau of Economic Research Working Paper. [file download]

•  Helslery, Robert W. 2004. Urban Political Economics. Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics. Edited by Henderson J. V. and Thisse, J. F.. Amsterdam, Netherlands: Ersevier. [file download]

•  Hoyt William H. and Jensen Richard A. 1994. Precommitment and State and Local Policy Coordination. [Working paper] [file download]

•  Knott, Jack and Miller, Gray. 2005. Designing Independent Bureaucracies: Economic Development, The Core, and Credible Commitment. Presented at the Annual Meeting of Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. Washington D.D., November 3-5. [file download]

•  Lewis, Paul G. 2001. Looking Outward or Turning Inward? Motivations for Development Decisions in California Central Cities and Suburbs. Urban Affairs Review 36(5): 696-720. [file download]

•  Malpezzi Stephen. 2002. Local Economic Development and Its Finance: An Introduction. Financing Economic Development in the 21st Century. M. E. Sharpe. (forthcoming) [file download]

•  McGuire, Michael. 2000. Collaborative Policy Making and Administration: The Operational Demands of Local Economic Development. Economic Development Qiarterly 14(3): 278-91. [file download]

•  Nelson, Arthur C. and Moody, Mitch. 2003. Paying for Properity: Impact Fees and Job Growth. A Discussion Paper Prepared for the Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy. [file download]

•  Ostrom, Elinor. 2005. Unlocking Public Entrepreneurship and Pubic Economies. [Working paper] [file download]

•  Papageorgiou, Chris and Turnbull, Geoffrey. 2005. Economic Development and Property Rights: Time Limits on Land Ownership. Economic Development Quarterly 19(3): 271-83. [file download]

•  Steinacker, Annette. 2002. Bargaining Games in Economic Development. The Review of Policy Research 19(4): 120-53. [file download]

•  Wassmer, Robert. W. and Anderson, John. E.. 2001. Bidding for Business: New Evidence on the Effect of Locally Offered Economic Development Incentives in a Metropolitan Area. Economic Development Quarterly 15(2): 132-48. [file download]