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The inter-temporal dimension to knowledge spillovers: any non-environmental reason to support clean innovation?
Karydas, Christos - 2017
How should governments best allocate their budget to support private research activities? The consensus in the literature is that sector-specific R&D support policies should be increasing in the degree of compatibility of sectoral innovation with the practices of the wider economy. Using a...
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Deciding about (de-)centralization of industrial policy: Delegation by a central authority vs. bargaining of regional governments
Morasch, Karl - 2003
Die europäische Kommission ist primärer Träger der Industriepolitik in der europäischen Union. Industriepolitische … Industriepolitik besser von einem zentralen Träger durchgeführt wird, der Spillovers internalisiert, oder von den regionalen … Industriepolitik regional oder durch eine zentrale Instanz durchgeführt werden soll. Interessanterweise schneidet bei Verhandlungen mit …
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Port privatization in an international oligopoly
Matsushima, Noriaki; Takauchi, Kazuhiro - 2013
We investigate how port privatization affects port charges, firm profits, and welfare. Our model consists of an international duopoly with two ports and two markets. When the unit transport cost is large, privatization of ports decreases the prices for port usage, although neither government has...
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Antidumping as strategic trade policy under asymmetric information
Matschke, Xenia; Schöttner, Anja - 2009
This paper investigates the domestic government's antidumping duty choice in an asymmetric information framework where the foreign firm's cost is observed by the domestic firm, but not by the government. To induce truthful revelation, the government can design a tariff schedule, contingent on...
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Subsidizing firm entry in open economies
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - 2009
Entrepreneurs who decide to enter an industry are faced with different levels of effective entry costs in different countries. These costs are heavily influenced by economic policy. What is not well understood is how international trade affects the government incentive to impact on entry costs,...
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Taxes versus cap-and-trade in climate policy when only some fuel importers abate
Strand, Jon - 2010
I study climate policy choices for a 'policy bloc' of fuel-importers, when a 'fringe' of other fuel importers have no climate policy, fuel exporters consume no fossil fuels, and importers produce no such fuels. The policy bloc and exporter blocs act strategically in fossil fuel markets. When the...
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Industry concentration and strategic trade policy in successive oligopoly
Nese, Gjermund; Straume, Odd Rune - 2005
We study a policy game between exporting and importing countries in vertically linked industries. In a successive international Cournot oligopoly, we analyse incentives for using tax instruments strategically to shift rents vertically, between exporting and importing countries, and horizontally,...
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Committing to grow: Employment targets and firm dynamics
Akcigit, Ufuk; Alp, Harun; Diegmann, André; … - 2024
We examine effects of government-imposed employment targets on firm behavior. Theoretically, such policies create "polarization," causing low-productivity firms to exit the market while others temporarily distort their employment upward. Dynamically, firms are incentivized to improve...
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Strategic trade policy and multinational enterprises
Klodt, Henning - 1991
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The case for technology policy: A tentative evaluation
Paqué, Karl-Heinz - 1995
industrial policy in support of high-tech industries. The paper reviews arguments based on endogenous growth theory and strategic … trade theory and surveys the most relevant pieces of empirical evidence, notably on external learning effects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275383