Search Results - subject:"Spatial Differencing"

Income Taxes, Sorting, and the Costs of Housing: Evidence from Municipal Boundaries in Switzerland

Basten, Christoph; Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Lassmann, Andrea - KOF Swiss Economic Institute, Department of Management, … - 2014

This paper provides novel evidence on the role of income taxes for residential rents and spatial sorting. Drawing on comprehensive apartment-level data, we identify the effects of tax differentials across municipal boundaries in Switzerland. The boundary discontinuity design (BDD) corrects for...

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Assessing the Effects of Local Taxation Using Microgeographic Data

Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent; Overman, Henry - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

entry. Keywords: Local taxation, spatial differencing, borders JEL Classifications: H22, H71, R38 Data: ARD, British … bias. This paper attempts to deal with all three of these problems. The crux of our approach is to use spatial differencing … control for unobservedtime-invariantsite-specific effects (ifestablishments donotmove)leavingour spatial differencing to …

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Assessing the effects of local taxation using microgeographic data

Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent; Overman, Henry G. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006

We study the impact of local taxation on the location and growth of firms. Our empirical methodology pairs establishments across jurisdictional boundaries to estimate the impact of taxation. Our approach improves on existing work as it corrects for unobserved establishment heterogeneity, for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746226

Crime, police, and truth-in-sentencing : the impact of state sentencing policy on local communities

Ross, Amanda - In: Regional science & urban economics 42 (2012) 1/2, pp. 144-152

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Crime, police, and truth-in-sentencing: The impact of state sentencing policy on local communities

Ross, Amanda - In: Regional Science and Urban Economics 42 (2012) 1-2, pp. 144-152

This paper considers two related questions: the impact of spatial variation in crime prevention policies on the migration of criminal activity into nearby locations and the tendency for higher-level government anti-crime policies to be offset by a scaling back of local crime deterrent efforts. A...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608492

Assessing the effects of local taxation using microgeographic data

Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent; Overman, Henry G - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

We study the impact of local taxation on the location and growth of firms. Our empiricalmethodology pairs establishments across jurisdictional boundaries to estimate the impact of taxation. Our approach improves on existing work as it corrects for unobserved establishment heterogeneity, for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005704803

Assessing the Effects of Local Taxation Using Microgeographic Data

Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent; Overman, Henry G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

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