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Ending the Euro Crisis?
Feldstein, Martin S. - 2015
All of the attempts to end the euro crisis and to return the Eurozone countries to healthy growth rates of income and employment have failed. The options that are currently being discussed are not likely to be more successful
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457804
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Do tax Incentives for Research Increase Firm Innovation? An RD Design for R&D
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine - 2016
change in the asset-based size thresholds for eligibility for R&D tax subsidies and implement a Regression Discontinuity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456272
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High Tech R&D Subsidies : Estimating the Effects of Sematech
Irwin, Douglas A. - 1994
assistance of the U.S. government in the form of $100 million in annual subsidies, formed a joint R&D consortium -- Sematech … duplication of member R&D spending. Whereas the commitment hypothesis provides a rationale for the government subsidies, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473925
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Investment Subsidies and Wages in Capital Goods Industries : To the Workers Go the Spoils?
Goolsbee, Austan - 1998
This paper looks at the impact of investment tax subsidies on the labor market for capital goods workers using data … from the 1979-88 Current Population Survey. The results show that investment subsidies drive up the wages of workers who … supply of capital goods identified in previous work and means that much of the benefit of investment subsidies is passed to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472281
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R&D Policy in Israel : An Overview and Reassessment
Trajtenberg, Manuel - 2000
The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of R&D policy in Israel, and critically examine the policies currently in place as well as proposals to change them. We review in Part I the various programs of the Office of the Chief Scientist (OCS) of the Ministry of Industry and Trade in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470806
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The Effect of Public Science on Corporate R&D
Arora, Ashish; Belenzon, Sharon; Cioaca, Larisa C.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the relationships between corporate R&D and three components of public science: knowledge, human capital, and invention. We identify the relationships through firm-specific exposure to changes in federal agency R\&D budgets that are driven by the political composition of congressional...
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Investment Ramifications of Distortionary Tax Subsidies
Hines, James R, Jr - 1998
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472196
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Notching R&D Investment with Corporate Income Tax Cuts in China
Chen, Zhao - 2018
We analyze the effects of a Chinese policy that awards substantial corporate tax cuts to firms that increase R&D investment over a given threshold, or notch. We exploit this quasi-experimental variation with administrative tax data in order to shed light on longstanding questions on the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452971
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Tax Policy for Innovation
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2019
A large number of countries around the world now provide some kind of tax incentive to encourage firms to undertake innovative activity. This paper presents the policy rationale for these incentives, discusses their design and potential effectiveness, and reviews the empirical evidence on their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479723
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Taxation and Innovation : What Do We Know?
Akcigit, Ufuk - 2020
Tax policies are a wide array of tools, commonly used by governments to influence the economy. In this paper, we review the many margins through which tax policies can affect innovation, the main driver of economic growth in the long-run. These margins include the impact of tax policy on i) the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481692