. The first section considers the role of government subsidies in the effort to promote private farms. The second considers … the impact of state procurement and state procurement subsidies on the development of marketing and distribution channels …. The third section looks at subsidies that cover part of the cost of agricultural inputs. The final section examines …

of R&D subsidies. We find that larger firms have higher marginal profitability of R&D. Rates of return on R&D are high … linear in R&D. The median increase from subsidies in the agency’s utility not appropriated by the applicant is 16 000 …

of subsidies via committees to the allocation of subsidies through the reference principle, which binds public support to … economic non-viability of the industry constantly recurs in the public debate as an argument for subsidies. …

, subsidies and efficiency the of animal farming. To this end we first have to identify the production frontier and relative … efficiency of the farms including direct subsidies, are compared with the counterfactual exercise in the case where direct … subsidies are not considered. Finally, we look for relations between subsidies and factors such as farm size, efficiency and …

This study examines the effect of research and development subsidies on the private funding of R&D in France. We … address this issue from the annual R&D survey over 1985-1997, which provides information about the R&D subsidies given by all … supported firms would have invested the same amount of private R&D without the subsidies, we use matching methods. We show that …

Following a critical review of the existing quantitative literature on cotton subsidies, a vector autoregression (VAR …) is used to model the effects of US subsidies on the world cotton market from 1965 to 2001. Surprisingly, subsidies are … between quantities, prices, stocks and subsidies are found to be considerably more complex than those suggested by basic …