Tradeoffs between Local Taxes and Government Spending as Determinants of Business Location

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A two-step estimator for a spatial lag model of counts: Theory, small sample performance and an application☆ (2010, background): “Local governments walk a fine line between generating sufficient revenue to provide public goods and services, and supporting a favorable business climate (Gabe and Bell, 2004).”
Empirical Studies in Industrial Location: An Assessment of Their Methods and Results (2009, methodology): “More recently, however, Gabe and Bell (2004) have argued that there is a trade-off between taxes and the provision of public goods and services in that high-tax locations remain attractive as long as they spend large sums of money in the provision of public goods and services.”
Tax and Public Input Competition (2007, unknown): “At the local level, Gabe and Bell (2004) study the impact of public expenditures and property tax rates on corporate location choices in Maine (United States) from 1993 to 1995.”
State Taxation and the Reallocation of Business Activity: Evidence from Establishment-Level Data (2019, unknown): “…effect of tax policy on the location of new plants or firms include Papke (1991), Wasylenko (1991), Coughlin, Terza, and Vachira (1991), Hines (1996), Guimaraes, Figueiredo, and Woodward (2003, 2004), Gabe and Bell (2004), Rathelot and Sillard (2008), and Brüllhart, Jametti, and Schmidheiny (2012).”