Most US states have adopted movie production incentives with the intention to stimulate state economic growth through … film industry investment and related economic activity. Previous cross-state studies of film incentives have not identified … incentives complicates the identification of economic effects. If benefits accrue only to the few states offering the greatest …

factor productivity. A lag structure is introduced which allows for a general specification so that the Oscar awards could …

The paper analyses the causal effect of capital subsidies on firms' efficiency and productivity by exploiting the … evolves over time, enabling to decompose productivity changes into the change in technical efficiency (i.e., measuring the …