Local government leaders quite often contend that upgraded highways are important to their communities' economic development potential. This article examines the degree to which investments in high-capacity highways are likely to influence business location decisions, given the mature nature of...

The need to evaluate and plan for the region-specific economic development impacts of potential global climate change is receiving increasing attention. This article presents a method for estimating such consequences and the results of exploratory research that applies this method to determining...

This article discusses the effectiveness of industrial development agencies (IDAs) in contributing to economic development in New York State by providing firm-specific tax incentives. The costs of IDAs, especially in terms of forgone tax revenues, are documented. The benefits of IDAs are...

Capital projects have economic as well as social (i.e., noneconomic) outcomes. Therefore, one cannot evaluate such projects by focusing on economic data only. This article describes the first five years of a tennis facility, built with public funds in 1990-91 in New Haven, Connecticut, to host...

Previous research has shown that both structural and political/organizational factors affect growth promotion. Most of these studies have neither distinguished between policy adoption and growth effort nor considered the possibility that the processes contributing to policy adoption may be...