start-up subsidy for unemployed individuals in Germany using propensity score matching under the CIA. Having access to rich …

We provide an evaluation of the impact of public subsidy schemes that aimed to support the development of basic … broadband infrastructure in rural areas of Germany. Such subsidies are subject to state aid control by the European Commission …

certain conditions, the optimal pollution tax is positive; otherwise, the tax reverts to a subsidy. Comparing mixed and …

In this paper, we analyse the role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition. Our primary result is that increasing … mobility intensifies tax competition, it weakens subsidy competition. The resulting fall in the governments' subsidy payments … in which two governments are first engaged in subsidy competition and thereafter in tax competition, and firms locate and …

This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric … subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the industry core is inefficiently locked in to the smaller region …. When regions weigh workers' and capitalists' welfare equally, the core region will set its subsidy low enough that the …