Why don't enterprise zones work? Estimates of the extent that EZ benefits are capitalized into property values

Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 15-30

  Landers, Jim ^a  

^a Indiana Legislative Services Agency   (United States)

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CAPITAL; ESTIMATION METHOD; HEDONIC ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISE; INDUSTRIAL LOCATION; MODELING; PRICE DYNAMICS;

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