Button Patrick
Department of Economics, Tulane University.
J Urban Aff. 2021;43(5):658-684. doi: 10.1080/07352166.2018.1530570. Epub 2018 Dec 3.
State Film Incentives (SFIs) are a recent and popular economic development incentive. I study these through case studies of two prominent SFIs: those in Louisiana and New Mexico, using the Abadie et al. (2010) synthetic control case study method. This allows me to estimate the effect of SFIs relative to the "business-as-usual": what would have happened without SFIs. I estimate the effects of these SFIs on filming location, using databases from IMDb and Studio System, and on business establishments, and employment in the motion picture production industry, using the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages. My results show increases in feature films, but not TV series filming, employment, or business establishments. This suggests that while there are some benefits to these incentives, their ability, under favorable circumstances, to develop a local film industry is very limited.
州电影激励措施（SFIs）是一种近期流行的经济发展激励手段。我通过对路易斯安那州和新墨西哥州这两个著名的州电影激励措施进行案例研究来展开此项研究，采用的是阿巴迪等人（2010年）的合成控制案例研究方法。这使我能够估计州电影激励措施相对于“照常营业”的效果：即没有州电影激励措施时会发生什么情况。我利用互联网电影数据库（IMDb）和制片厂系统数据库来估计这些州电影激励措施对拍摄地点的影响，并利用就业与工资季度普查数据来估计其对企业机构以及电影制作行业就业情况的影响。我的研究结果显示，故事片数量有所增加，但电视剧拍摄、就业或企业机构数量并未增加。这表明，虽然这些激励措施有一些好处，但在有利的情况下，它们发展当地电影产业的能力非常有限。
