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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Criscuolo, Chiara - 2014

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...

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Opening Up Military Innovation : Causal Effects of Reforms to U.S. Defense Research

T. Howell, Sabrina; Rathje, Jason; Van Reenen, John; … - 2022

There is little econometric study of how governments should procure innovation. One choice facing policymakers is …” approach). We exploit a natural experiment in the widely emulated Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. From 2018 … commercial innovation measured by VC funding and patenting. By contrast, Conventional awards have no effects on these outcomes …

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The Effects of Capital Subsidization on Israeli Industry

Bregman, Arie; Fuss, Melvyn; Regev, Haim - 2021

An industrial policy of subsidizing physical capital investment has been utilized in many countries in order to encourage export growth and spread economic development to outlying areas. For Israel, we possess a unique time series-cross section micro data set that details investment and its...

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The Impact of Industry Consolidation on Government Procurement : Evidence from Department of Defense Contracting

Carril, Rodrigo - 2018

We study the relationship between market structure and public procurement outcomes. In particular, we ask whether and to what extent consolidation-driven increases in industry concentration affect the way in which the government procures its goods and services. We focus on the defense industry,...

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Detecting Illegal Arms Trade

DellaVigna, Stefano - 2010

Illegal arms are responsible for thousands of deaths in civil wars every year. Yet, their trade is very hard to detect. We propose a method to statistically detect illegal arms trade based on the investor knowledge embedded in financial markets. We focus on eight countries under UN arms embargo...

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The Arsenal of Democracy : Production and Politics During Wwii

Rhode, Paul W. - 2018

We study the geographic distribution of military supply contracts during World War II. This is a unique case, since over $3 trillion current day dollars was spent, and there were concerns that the country's future hinged on the war outcome. We find robust evidence consistent with the hypothesis...

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Private Investment in R&D to Signal Ability to Perform Government Contracts

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 2021

Official government statistics on the "mission-distribution" ofU.S. R&D investment are based on the assumption that only the governmentsponsors military R&D. In this paper we advance and test thealternative hypothesis, that a significant share of privately-financedindustrial R&D is military in...

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The Institutional Context and Manufacturing Performance : The Case of the U.S. Defense Industrial Network

Cook, Cynthia R.; Kelley, Maryellen R. - 2021

U.S. manufacturing firms that make sophisticated weapons systems for the Pentagon are subject to an unusual regulatory regime that obligates them to volunteer' information on their business practices to the government and to prime contractors as a condition of their special relationship with the...

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The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution : Incentives and Institutions

Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2014

During the Industrial Revolution technological progress and innovation became the main drivers of economic growth. But …

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Labor Laws and Innovation

Acharya, Viral V. - 2014

employees to pursue value-enhancing innovative activities. Using patents and citations as proxies for innovation, we identify … that within a country, innovation and economic growth are fostered by stringent laws governing dismissal of employees …, especially in the more innovation-intensive sectors. Firm-level tests within the United States that exploit a discontinuity …

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