-being of residents. A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act aimed to spur private investment in low-income areas called … Opportunity Zones (OZs). We evaluate the impact of OZs on investment using data on the near-universe of commercial retail, office … estimates of the effect of OZ eligibility on census tract-level investment. Additional data from MasterCard show no robust …

the United States called Opportunity Zones (OZs). The goal of this provision was to spur private investment in OZs in … the impact of OZs on commercial investment and economic activity. Using data on the universe of all significant commercial … investments in the United States, we find that OZ selection led to practically no increase in investment in OZs. These findings …

studies how additionality affects the distributional effects of the ECP. Using the example of the firm-level investment … investment additionality and the level of competition importantly affect the distributional effects of the ECP. Imposing … benefits firms. In an imperfectly competitive environment the firm-level investment support may increase capital use and may be …

incomes in the east have now reached the western level, and investment per capita has been much higher than in the w est …. However, every third deutschmark spent in the east has been coming from the west, investment in equipment has fallen below the … west Germany. Excessively high wages coupled with investment incentives that made the cost of capital negative rank high …

The main objective of the present paper is to estimate the extent to which firm investment is substituted (crowded …-out) by investment support policies granted under the EU Rural Development Programme (RDP). In the empirical analyses we …

and sustainable energy production. This Energy Investment Tax Allowance (EIA in Dutch) reduces up-front investment costs … deduct some of the investment costs from their taxable profits. The EIA may also reduce search costs by investors to find … revenues to subsidise investment in energy-efficient technologies and renewable energy is not very different from using on …