market mechanism. As a response, public instruments have been implemented to stimulate private innovation activities. The … Establishment Panel and apply various microeconometric methods to estimate the effect of public measures on innovation activities of …

This paper compares electricity market reforms in the European Union with reforms in Chile and Brazil. The paradigm of … present the institutional framework as well as the development of electricity markets in the European Union, Chile and Brazil … electricity companies and transnational competition, Chile and Brazil have only partially liberalized their electricity sector …

We use an OLG model to study the effects of the generous public sector pension system in Brazil. In our model there are …

to investigate possible crowdingout effects on the input side of the innovation process. Different specifications of R …

This study examines the effect of R&D tax credits on innovation activities of Canadian manufacturing firms. Over the … on a series of innovation indicators such as number of new products, sales with new products, originality of innovation … additional innovation output. …

impact of public technology policies on innovation of firms located in Eastern Germany. The main question is whether public … funding stimulates innovation activities or whether crowding?out effects between public and private means occur. A non … companies would have invested remarkably less if they had not participated in public innovation policy schemes. …

This study analyzes the effects of public R&D policy schemes on the innovation activities of firms located in Eastern … innovation activities by about four percentage points. …