Are climate policies good or bad for growth? Many policy makers who are trying to implement such policies are promising positive growth effects not only in the long run of 50 to 100 years, when effective climate policies will help to mitigate the potentially catastrophic economic consequences of...

<em>This report is co-authored by <a href="http://simpatic.eu/author/antoine-dechezlepretre/" target="_blank">Antoine Dechezleprêtre</a>, Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, London School of Economics; and  Myra Mohnen, University College London.</em> How much should governments subsidize the development of new clean technologies? We...

<em>This post is co-authored by <a href="http://simpatic.eu/author/rene-belderbos/" target="_blank">Rene Belderbos</a>, KU leuven.</em> It is well established in the literature that there are intra- and inter-sectoral knowledge spillovers, which are national and cross-border, and mean that the social rate of return from R&D exceeds the private rate of return. It is essential...

In this paper, we update and summarize the results of the SIMPATIC e-book on the results from microeconometric analysis of how firms apply for R&D subsidies, and how governments grant them, using data from 5 EU countries. We find that older firms are less and larger firms mostly more...

In this paper, we update and summarize the results of the SIMPATIC e-book on the results from microeconometric analysis of how firms apply for R&D subsidies, and how governments grant them, using data from 5 EU countries. We find that older firms are less and larger firms mostly more...

In this paper, we update and summarize the results of the SIMPATIC e-book on the results from microeconometric analysis of how firms apply for R&D subsidies, and how governments grant them, using data from 5 EU countries. We find that older firms are less and larger firms mostly more...

In this paper, we update and summarize the results of the SIMPATIC e-book on the results from microeconometric analysis of how firms apply for R&D subsidies, and how governments grant them, using data from 5 EU countries. We find that older firms are less and larger firms mostly more...

In this paper, we update and summarize the results of the SIMPATIC e-book on the results from microeconometric analysis of how firms apply for R&D subsidies, and how governments grant them, using data from 5 EU countries. We find that older firms are less and larger firms mostly more...