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Should State and Local Government Bidding for Big Businesses Be More Like eBay?

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During recent decades, and especially after the economic downturn that began in the late 2000s, many U.S. state and local governments have intensified their pro‐growth efforts to promote corporate investment and jobs, including ever higher incentives (such as tax breaks and grants) in their bidding wars for big businesses. This paper draws an analogy—between bidding for big businesses and bidding on eBay—to highlight the drawbacks of high‐profile bidding wars among governments given that the large corporations establish the bidding rules in their favor. The main consideration raised is whether state and local government bidding for big businesses, which operates analogously to an auction, should be more like eBay, whose rules are fair not only for sellers but also for bidders.

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  • Linda McCarthy, 2018. "Should State and Local Government Bidding for Big Businesses Be More Like eBay?," Growth and Change, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(3), pages 400-412, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:growch:v:49:y:2018:i:3:p:400-412
    DOI: 10.1111/grow.12238
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