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Returns to public R&D grants and subsidies
Cappelen, Ådne; Raknerud, Arvid; Rybalka, Marina - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013
We address the question of whether the returns to R&D differ between R&D projects funded by public grants and R&D in general. To answer this question, we use a flexible production function that distinguishes between different types of R&D by source of finance. Our approach requires no adjustment...
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Matching estimators of average treatment effects: a review applied to the evaluation of health care programmes
Moreno-Serra, Rodrigo - Department of Economics and Related Studies, University … - 2007
The general aim of this paper is to review how matching methods try to solve the evaluation problem – with a particular … focus on propensity score matching – and their usefulness for the particular case of health programme evaluation. The … “classical” case of matching estimation with a single discrete treatment is presented as a basis for discussing recent …
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EVALUATING THE PERFORMANCE OF NON-EXPERIMENTAL ESTIMATORS: EVIDENCE FROM A RANDOMIZED UI PROGRAM
Galdo, Jose - Econometric Society - 2004
of regression functions and matching estimators based on kernel methods with mixed categorical and continuous data. A …-neighbor matching on kernel-based propensity score with mixed categorical and continuous data produces a closer approximation to the …
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Macroeconomic Reform and Technical Efficiency in Australian - Riforme macroeconomiche ed efficienza tecnica nell’industria manifatturiera australiana – un’analisi stocastica della...
Karunaratne, Neil Dias - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 66 (2013) 3, pp. 345-369
The paper reports the empirical results of the validation of the Stochastic Production Frontier (SPF) Model to an unbalanced panel comprising a crosssection of 8 manufacturing industries over a time span of 26 years The results provide insights on the repercussions of the macro-economic reform...
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Do the effects of R&D tax credits vary across industries? A meta-regression analysis
Castellacci, Fulvio; Lie, Christine - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
This paper presents a survey of the micro-econometric literature on the effects of R&D tax credits on firms’ innovation activities. We focus on one specific aspect that has not received sufficient attention in previous research: the sectoral dimension. Our meta-regression analysis (MRA) sets...
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Is Financial Support for Private R&D Always Justified? A Discussion Based on the Literature on Growth
Montmartin, Benjamin; Massard, Nadine - Groupe de REcherche en Droit, Économie, Gestion … - 2013
Many economists have long held that market failures create a gap between social and private returns to Research and Development (R&D), thereby limiting private incentives to invest in R&D. However, this common belief that firms significantly underinvest in R&D is increasingly being challenged,...
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Is financial support for private R&D always justified ? A discussion based on literature on growth
Montmartin, Benjamin; Massard, Nadine - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013
Many economists have long held that market failures create a gap between social and private returns to Research and Development (R&D), thereby limiting private incentives to invest in R&D. However, this common belief that firms significantly underinvest in R&D is increasingly being challenged,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010858022
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The Design of R&D Support Schemes for Industry
Thomson, Russell; Webster, Elizabeth - Melbourne Institute of Applied Economic and Social … - 2011
Scant discussion exists in the literature about the relative design merits of various R&D schemes and most authors treat program design as a black box. In this paper, we assess the design features of three major forms of R&D support: entitlement schemes, competitive schemes and industry R&D...
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Financing of industrial innovations in India How effective are tax incentives for R & D?
Mani, Sunil - Centre for Development Studies (CDS) - 2008
The paper surveys the instruments that are available for innovation financing in India. It identifies three such instruments, namely research grants and loans, venture capital and tax incentives. The effectiveness of all these instruments are then examined in some general fashion, but one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010860093
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Do the effects of R&D tax credits vary across industries? A meta-regression analysis
Castellacci, Fulvio; Lie, Christine Mee - In: Research Policy 44 (2015) 4, pp. 819-832
This paper presents a survey of the micro-econometric literature on the effects of R&D tax credits on firms’ innovation activities. We focus on one specific aspect that has not received sufficient attention in previous research: the sectoral dimension. Our meta-regression analysis (MRA) sets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011263819