In this paper, I investigate whether instead of strengthening home-based production, government R&D-subsidies can … evidence of such relocation. R&D subsidies rather tend to en courage export production at the expense of foreign production …

An "incentive subsidy" policy for subsidizing private R & D is proposed that can be more efficient, from a social point … of view, than subsidy policies in common use such as a "normal" subsidy policy (fixed amount granted at project start …), and conditional loans (loan is repaid only if project is profitable). The incentive subsidy compensates firms for any …

little is known about the effectiveness of such subsidies. This paper summarizes the empirical literature concerning direct … project subsidies, tax credits, and support for industrial research institutes. This helps to identify what makes government …

Between 1970 and 1978, industrial subsidies in Sweden rose from 4.9 % to 16 % of value added in mining and … manufacturing. Most of this increase was due to increased wage subsidies to specific firms facing acute difficulties. The Swedish … industrial subsidy program seems to be both larger in relation to industrial output and more selective than similar programs in …