Baumann, Martina; Knoll, Bodo; Riedel, Nadine - 2014
Recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in the provision of R&D tax incentives. A growing empirical literature … suggests that R&D tax incentives are instrumental in raising domestic R&D activity. In policy debates this finding is often … interpreted to lend support to the notion that R&D tax incentives increase national welfare by internalizing knowledge spillovers …