contribute by i) developing a comprehensive theory on the effects of winning non-innovative public procurement tenders as a firm … and ii) empirically testing our theory by combining representative German data with two-way fixed effect difference … results confirm our theory and empirically hold at the level of the individual firm and the German enterprise sector. …

This paper shows that EU and national innovation subsidy policies stimulated Central and East-ern Europe Countries …

In this paper, we analyse the role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition. Our primary result is that increasing … mobility intensifies tax competition, it weakens subsidy competition. The resulting fall in the governments' subsidy payments … in which two governments are first engaged in subsidy competition and thereafter in tax competition, and firms locate and …