Combining rules and discretion in economic development policy: Evidence on the impacts of the California Competes Tax Credit☆
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We are grateful for funding from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and the Smith Richardson Foundation. Any views expressed are ours only, and do not reflect the views of these foundations. We thank Carlos Anguiano, Jessica Deitchman, Ben Hyman, Toni Symonds, Brian Uhler, Brian Weatherford, Timothy Young, seminar participants at UCI, and the editor and anonymous reviewers for helpful comments and assistance. We also thank current and former staff of the California Governor's Office of Business and Economic Development, including Cheryl Akin, Scott Dosick, Kristen Kane, Van Nguyen, Jonathan Sievers, and Austin Sihoe, for numerous useful discussions. The views expressed are our own; GO-Biz provided program data, and had no control over our analysis, interpretation, or conclusions. The research in this paper was conducted while the authors were Special Sworn Status researchers of the U.S. Census Bureau at the Federal Statistical Research Data Center at the University of California, Irvine. Any views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the U.S. Census Bureau. The Census Bureau's Disclosure Review Board and Disclosure Avoidance Officers have reviewed this information product for unauthorized disclosure of confidential information and have approved the disclosure avoidance practices applied to this release. This research was performed at a Federal Statistical Research Data Center under FSRDC Project Number 2146 (CBDRB-FY21-P2146-R8762, CBDRB-FY21-P2146-R8879, CBDRB-FY22-P2146-R9680, and CBDRB-FY22-P2146-R9836).