Private developers seek to locate their projects within a specific region. Local governments try to attract those businesses by offering tax incentives. In order to extract favorable terms from local governments, developers sometimes threaten to relocate or abandon their project. Seeking to minimize the overall harm to the community if the threats are realized, local governments will simply approve what was demanded by developers. Using survey data from across the U.S., I investigate the kinds of threats that are made by developers in an attempt to push local governments to compete against each other for projects and which factors make it more likely that those threats will succeed. The logistic regression model revealed that municipalities with inter-municipal cooperation and public participation in real estate development projects are more likely to decrease the chance of private developers’ threats succeeding. Conversely, neither having economic development staff nor an economic development plan did.

私人开发商寻求在特定区域内找到他们的项目。地方政府试图通过提供税收优惠来吸引那些企业。为了从地方政府中提取优惠条件，开发商有时会威胁要搬迁或放弃他们的项目。如果能够意识到威胁的威胁，他们希望将对社区的整体危害降至最低，因此，地方政府将简单地批准开发商的要求。我使用来自美国各地的调查数据，调查了开发商试图推动地方政府为项目相互竞争的各种威胁，以及哪些因素使这些威胁成功的可能性更大。Logistic回归模型显示，具有市际合作和公众参与房地产开发项目的市镇更有可能减少私人开发商威胁成功的机会。相反，既没有经济发展人员也没有经济发展计划。