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simultaneity between subsidy allocation and the qualitative composition of the innovative output, as well as the endogeneity of … the innovation subsidy; far from 'doing better' as a result of government intervention, supported firms appear to exhaust …
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. First, there have been many recent calls for the (relatively new) UK R&D subsidy to be extended to other research activities … of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover effects … from intangible investment at the market sector level, including from R&D, (b) strong evidence of market sector spillovers …
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in East Germany after reunification. We show that a 1-percentage-point decrease in the subsidy rate leads to a 1 …% decrease in manufacturing employment. We document important spillovers for untreated sectors in treated counties, untreated … counties connected via trade and local taxes, whereas we do not find spillovers on counties in the same local labor market. We …
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Current literature on the impact assessment of government innovation subsidies is mainly empirical driven and lacks an overarching theoretical model to explain the conditions under which government subsidies create positive additionalities on private R&D investment. In this paper, we present a...
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This paper examines how employee earnings at small firms respond to a cash flow shock in the form of a government R&D grant. We use ranking data on applicant firms, which we link to IRS W2 earnings and other U.S. Census Bureau datasets. In a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
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than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel …
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Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of … sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined by the firm's output, but also that negative spillovers may arise when … pairs of players who are most complementary in the production process exert the largest positive spillovers on each other …
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international spillovers, as increases in government-funded R&D in a particular industry and country raise private R&D in the same …
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This paper investigates the impact of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs on crime. Making use of a unique dataset combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we estimate the contemporaneous effect of the...
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This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a...
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