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The causal effects of an industrial policy

Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry; Van … - 2012

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...

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Industrial policy and firm heterogeneity

Barros, Pedro P.; Nilssen, Tore - 1999

Our concern is with a firm-specific industrial policy. When R&D subsidies or taxes are differentiated among firms, the question arises which firms in an industry should receive such support. We analyze a situation where firms differ in their R&D technologies in two distinct ways: They differ...

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Globalization and the Need for Strategic Government-Industry Cooperation in the Philippine Automotive Industry

Aldaba, Rafaelita M. - 2008

The industry's lack of competitiveness, absence of economies of scale and a weak supply base are the fundamental issues that must be addressed in order to strengthen the industry and integrate it with regional production networks of foreign automakers. The entry of cheap, smuggled second-hand...

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Assessing the Spillover Effects of FDI to the Philippines

Aldaba, Rafaelita M.; Aldaba, Fernando T. - 2010

The experience of the Philippines shows that FDI spillover effects are not automatically generated. Opening up the economy to FDI has contributed to the country's exports of high-technology products and overall economic growth. However, the spillover effects of FDI to domestic firms have...

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Microeconomic Interventions after the Washington Consensus

Rodríguez-Clare, Andrés - 2005

This paper examines the microeconomic interventions used to complement Washington Consensus reforms in Latin America. It maintains that the kind of interventions currently in vogue in most countries lack a sound theoretical and empirical foundation or are applied in a manner likely to prove...

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The Philippines in the Global Trading Environment: Looking Back and the Road Ahead

Austria, Myrna S. - 2002

The government has implemented substantial trade and investment policy reforms during the last two decades following a three-track approach involving unilateral, regional and multilateral modalities towards freer trade and investment. The reforms resulted to improvements in domestic resource...

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Industriepolitik in Österreich: Von selektiver Intervention zu einem systemischen Ansatz?

Aiginger, Karl; Sieber, Susanne - 2009

Industriepolitik ist ein umstrittener, aber notwendiger Teil der Wirtschaftspolitik. Sie entwickelte sich von … kombiniert werden ("Neue Systemische Industriepolitik"). Besonders durch die Wirtschaftskrise, aber auch als nationale Ergänzung … zu einer Globalisierung der Wirtschaft gewinnt Industriepolitik eine neue Bedeutung. …

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The "Greening" of Industrial Policy, Headwinds and a Possible Symbiosis

Aiginger, Karl - 2013

many national policy makers in the USA, UK and France. It should be pro competitive, in line with societal needs … green growth. Europe sets targets for increasing energy efficiency, increasing shares of renewable energy and cutting … in the USA, based on a new extraction technology and from the breaking down of the European emission trading. The …

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Muß die Halbleiterproduktion subventioniert werden?

Starbatty, Joachim; Vetterlein, Uwe - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 68 (1988) 4, pp. 188-195

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Brauchen wir eine strategische Hochtechnologiepolitik?

Seitz, Konrad; Glos, Michael - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 72 (1992) 5, pp. 231-238

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