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Do direct R&D subsidies lead to the monopolization of R&D in the economy?
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Ebersberger, Bernd - 2010
This paper explores the impact of R&D subsidies on the concentration of R&D in an economy. First, governments are often criticized of subsidizing predominantly larger firms and thus contribute to persistence of leadership in markets and higher barriers to entry, and, hence, reduced competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008701446
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The behavioral elasticity of tax revenue
Hemel, Daniel J.; Weisbach, David A. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013348004
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R&D policies for young SMEs : input and output effects
Czarnitzki, Dirk; Delanote, Julie - 2015
This paper evaluates the current focus of EU policy makers on small and medium-sized, young independent firms in high-tech sectors. Therefore, the effect of subsidies on both R&D input and R&D output is compared between independent high-tech young firms (NTBFs), independent low-tech young firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519610
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The impact of business support services for small and medium enterprises on firm performance in low- and middle-income countries : a meta-analysis
Cravo, Túlio; Piza, Caio - 2016
often based on the assumption that market failures and institutional constraints impede the growth of SME growth … interventions despite the abundance of resources directed to SME business-support services. This paper systematically reviews and … summarizes 40 rigorous evaluations of SME-support services in LMICs and presents evidence to help inform policy debates. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521236
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(International) R&D collaboration and SMEs : the effectiveness of targeted public R&D support schemes
Hottenrott, Hanna; Lopes Bento, Cindy - 2012
This study analyses the effectiveness of targeted public support for R&D investment. In particular, we test whether the specific policy design aiming at incentivizing (international) collaboration and R&D in small and mediumsized firms achieves the desired objectives on input as well as output...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009686768
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The impact of COVID-19 on US firms
Bloom, Nicholas; Fletcher, Robert S.; Yeh, Ethan - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012588208
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The impact of Covid-19 on small business owners : evidence of early-stage losses from the April 2020 Current Population Survey
Fairlie, Robert W. - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225458
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The real effects of EU loan guarantee schemes for SMEs: a pan-European assessment
Brault, Julien; Signore, Simone - 2019
This paper provides a pan-European assessment of EU credit guarantees to SMEs. Synthesizing past research, it investigates the firm-level economic impact of over 360,000 guaranteed loans under the EU MAP and CIP programmes from 2002 to 2016. These loans represented a total amount of EUR 22bn...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012021696
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The economic impact of EU guarantees on credit to SMEs : evidence from CESEE countries
Asdrubali, Pierfederico; Signore, Simone - 2015
entrepreneurship EU SME Guarantee Facility in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European (CESEE) Countries in the period 2005 …-2012. Data on SME beneficiaries has been collected from administrative records and enriched with information on firms' financial … to evaluate the effect of having received a MAP-guaranteed SME loan on firm performance (employment, production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011861131
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The effects of EU-funded guarantee instruments of the performance of small and medium enterprises : evidence from France
Bertoni, Fabio; Colombo, Massimo G.; Quas, Anita - 2018
rates. The study also estimates the effects of guaranteed loans on SME productivity. Consistent with earlier works, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011939685