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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"Tax Increment Financing"”.
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Essays on Tax Increment Financing
This dissertation consists of three essays on Tax Increment Financing (TIF), focusing on TIF use in Illinois. TIF is a popular economic development tool that allows for the funding of municipal improvements from increases in property tax revenue brought about by the municipal improvements. The …
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Tax Increment Financing in Illinois: Policy Implications for School Districts
The property tax is one source of revenue for local governments. In 1977, the Illinois legislature passed a law which sets up procedures whereby a municipality can declare certain areas within its boundaries as a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district to promote redevelopment of the area. The area …
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The effect of tax increment financing development on housing affordability in Houston, Texas
Tax Increment Financing (TIF), which is called TIRZ in Texas, has become a popular, if controversial, economic development tool used by local jurisdictions across the country. TIF has been used for a variety of purposes and its efficacy has not been widely studied. The few studies on TIF’s …
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Merging walkability into tax increment financing: Champaign-IL downtown fringe TIF district case demonstration
The use of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) in the United States achieved enough time to dismiss the policy of the label “new” or “innovative”, but despite the variety of studies, TIF’s extended possibilities still welcome exploration. With that in mind, urban planning practitioners can push for …
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Educational equity and economic development: A study of the impact of tax increment financing districts on suburban cook county school districts
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2025-10-19 without embargo terms
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Can tax increment financing (T.I.F.) trigger vital redevelopment in Montreal? : private-public collaborate through T.I.F. serves as a prototype for urban redevelopment in Montreal
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 1993.
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Understanding unemployment and local hiring in Lawrence, Massachusetts : a report for the City of Lawrence
… that take advantage of City incentives - such as tax-increment financing - fare when it comes to local hiring. We identify three major development projects and determine which local benefits they were awarded, how many jobs they promised to create and retain, and what the businesses actually …
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Three Essays on Urban Property Taxes
… the economic and fiscal effects of property tax policies in urban areas. The dissertation aims to expand current understanding of urban property tax dynamics and fragmentation features.In the first chapter, titled "Property Tax Interaction among Overlapping Local Jurisdictions: …
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The impact of economic development incentives on public education in Missouri
… has been done to measure the impact on the other taxing jurisdictions whose revenues are impacted by the diversion or abatement of taxes for supporting economic development. This dissertation studies the impact on public school financing in Missouri of locally administered economic development …
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Essays in Public Economics
"The first essay analyzes a model of strategic tax competition with mobile capital and mobile identical consumers. The obtained results are compared to the traditional model with an immobile population. In addition to the fiscal and pecuniary externalities present in the standard model, a new …
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An empirical study of attitudes towards green urban development
… of Atlanta BeltLine and whether the implement of Tax Increment Financing (TIF) affects the support. The contributions of this exercise are twofold. First, it demonstrates the risks and remedies to missing spatial data by solving the technical problem of missing precise spatial location values. …