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A number of market failures have been associated with R&D investments and significant amounts of public money have been spent on programs to stimulate innovative activities. In this paper, we review some recent microeconomic studies evaluating effects of government sponsored commercial R&D. We...
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strong agglomeration economies in Japanese investment. Two policy variables are consistently shown to influence the location … of investment - foreign trade zones and labor subsidies. We use simulations to explore the impact these policies had on … the geographic distribution of Japanese investment. The simulations reveal that in aggregate promotion programs largely …
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the present value of the returns from an initial investment of [1pound], using the social discount rate, should be equal …
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, progressive taxation as well as investment and output subsidies to the entrepreneurial sector …
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This paper examines the investment effects of tax subsidies for which some assets and not others are eligible …. Distortionary tax subsidies encourage firms to concentrate investments in tax-favored assets profitability of investment and …, which in turn discourages investment. Borrowing rates react so strongly that aggregate investment may rise very little, or …
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This paper investigates the divisional investment policies of diversified firms. We find that investment of the … smallest division's investment is more sensitive to the cash flow of the other divisions for firms where one expects aggregate … investment to be related to cash flow also, namely low q firms and firms with high leverage. This and other evidence we provide …
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This paper studies the investment creation and diversion effects of the EU's Single Market programme (EU92). We first … present empirical evidence which suggests that EU92 caused investment diversion in the European Free Trade Association (EFTA …) nations and investment creation in the EU. The economic logic behind this is simple. Discriminatory liberalization shifts …
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In his Fisher-Schultz Lecture, Martin Feldstein examined the effects of non-neutral tax rules on business investment by … existing U.S. tax rules, substantially discouraged investment in the past 15 years." In a detailed examination of Feldstein … with the relatively robust levels of net investment between 1965 and 1981 actually shown in the newly benchmarked National …
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is observed to be a predominant form of capital flows to low and middle income … productive investment in the presence of asymmetric information between the managing owners of firms and other portfolio … stakeholders. We emphasize the crucial role played by FDI in sustaining equity-financed capital investment for economies plagued by …
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Capital income tax policy affects investment by the parent and affiliates of multinational corporations (MNCs). In a … model in which technical advances are embodied in new capital, investment will translate directly into productivity gains … 1992, due to productivity growth in MNCs with Canadian affiliates; (3) the investment elasticity of productivity growth is …
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