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Investment tax credits and the response of firms
Lerche, Adrian - 2022
This paper estimates the direct effects of investment tax credits on firms' production behavior and the additional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013429414
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Who benefits from tax incentives? : the heterogeneous wage incidence of a tax credit
Carbonnier, Clément; Malgouyres, Clément; Py, Loriane; … - 2021
Do workers gain from lower business taxes, and why? We estimate how a large corporate income tax credit in France is passed on to wages and explore the firm- and employee-level underlying mechanisms. The amount of tax credit firms get depends on their payroll share of workers paid less than a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012609191
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Investment grants and firms' productivity : how effective is a grant booster shot?
Alexandre, Fernando; Chaves, Miguel; Portela, Miguel - 2022
This paper investigates the effect of awarding a second investment grant to the same firm. We implement a Regression … and their scores to firms' performance. Overall, our results show a positive and significant impact of an investment grant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471197
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Who wins and who loses from state subsidies?
Du, Jun; Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Stepanok, Ignat - 2022
China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay competitive. We implement an approach that allows for the joint estimation of direct and indirect effects of subsidies on subsidized and non-subsidized firms. We find that firms that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013187211
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Has the Paycheck Protection Program succeeded?
Hubbard, R. Glenn; Strain, Michael R. - 2020
Enacted March 27, 2020, the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) was the most ambitious and creative fiscal policy response to the Pandemic Recession in the United States. PPP offers forgivable loans - essentially grants - to businesses with 500 or fewer employees that meet certain requirements. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012305361
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Downward revision of investment decisions after corporate tax hikes
Link, Sebastian; Menkhoff, Manuel; Peichl, Andreas; … - 2023
This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax … changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can … study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their investment decisions. On average, the share of firms that invest less than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249936
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A firm scientific community: industry participation and knowledge diffusion
Baruffaldi, Stefano Horst; Poege, Felix - 2020
We study the diffusion of knowledge from scientists to firms within scientific communities. We build on a unique dataset on conference proceedings as "paper trail" of almost all relevant conference series in computer science since 1996. More than 5000 firms appear as conference sponsors or as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242837
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The new wave? : the role of human capital and STEM skills in technology adoption in the UK
Draca, Mirko; Nathan, Max; Nguyen-Tien, Viet; … - 2024
Which types of human capital influence the adoption of advanced technologies? We study the skill-biased adoption of information and communication technologies (ICT) across two waves in the UK. Specifically, we compare the "new wave" of cloud and machine learning / AI technologies during the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015074528
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Making subsidies work : rules vs. discretion
Cingano, Federico; Palomba, Filippo; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022
We estimate the employment effects of a large program of public investment subsidies that ranked applications on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170844
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Single mothers and the earned income tax credit : insurance without disincentives?
Athreya, Kartik B.; Reilly, Devin; Simpson, Nicole B. - 2014
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is the single most important transfer program in place in the United States. An aspect of the EITC that has received little attention thus far is its role as a public insurance program. Yet, the structure of the EITC necessarily protects its primary class of...
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