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A Commitment Theory of Subsidy Agreements
Brou, Daniel - 2012
framework that emphasizes commitment. We build a model where the policy-maker has a tariff and a production subsidy at its …
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Subsidizing National Champions : An Evolutionary Perspective
Aubert, Cecile - 2008
A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770493
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Does State Aid for Broadband Deployment in Rural Areas Close the Digital and Economic Divide?
Briglauer, Wolfgang - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have – depending on...
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Trade Agreements
Kowalczyk, Carsten; Riezman, Raymond G. - 2021
This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316371
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Making (Small) Firms Happy. The Heterogeneous Effect of Trade Facilitation Measures
Fontagne, Lionel - 2016
This paper considers the asymmetric effect of Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) policies on heterogeneous exporters, based on matching a detailed panel of French firm exports to a new database of Trade Facilitation Indicators (TFIs) released recently by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989030
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Regulatory Chill and the Effect of Investor State Dispute Settlements
Janeba, Eckhard - 2019
Legal conflicts between multinational firms and host governments are often decided by international arbitration panels - as opposed to courts in the host country - due to provisions in international investment agreements known as Investor State Dispute Settlements (ISDS). Critics fear that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902523
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Dynamically Optimal R&D Subsidization
Grossmann, Volker - 2010
from the steady state under current R&D subsidization in the US, the R&D subsidy should significantly jump upwards and then … slightly decrease over time. There is a negligible loss in welfare, however, from immediately setting the R&D subsidy to its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139245
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Lobbying for Education in a Two-Sector Model
Di Gioacchino, Debora - 2011
In a two-period model, firms specialized in two different sectors lobby to induce the government to subsidize the type of education complementary to their production. Lobbying is endogenous. We show that, if lobbying is not costly, both sectors will lobby in equilibrium and education policy will...
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To Work or Not to Work? The Effect of Child-Care Subsidies on the Labour Supply of Parents
Kosonen, Tuomas - 2013
This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes in the municipality-specific supplement to Finnish child homecare allowance to identify the causal effect of subsidies on the labour force participation of parents. The variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088126
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Subsidizing Renewable Energy Under Capital Mobility
Eichner, Thomas - 2014
outflow to other countries. When the green subsidy is available, countries choose a positive subsidy rate since this reduces … the overall distortion of the tax-subsidy system. In doing so, each country internalizes a larger part of the …. Hence, the subsidy is not only beneficial for the country which imposes it but for all countries …
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