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Estimating (easily interpreted) dynamic training effects from experimental data
Ba, Bocar A.; Ham, John C.; LaLonde, Robert John; Li, … - In: Journal of labor economics 35 (2017), pp. 149-200
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Side effects of subsidizing renewable energy production in Romania
Platon, Victor; Constantinescu, Andreea - 2018
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When should governments subsidize health? : the case of mass deworming
Ahuja, Amrita; Baird, Sarah; Hicks, Joan Hamory; … - In: 2014 Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics …, (pp. 9-24). 2015
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Are the subsidies to private capital useful? : a multiple regression discontinuity design approach
Pellegrini, Guido; Cerqua, Augusto - 2011
There is still little consensus on the effectiveness of business support policies. The empirical evaluation is complicated by the difficulty in achieving reliable identification. We analyse the impact of Law 488/92, the main Italian regional policy. We propose a new approach, named multiple...
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How do distinct firm characteristics affect behavioural additionalities of public R&D subsidies? : empirical evidence from a binary regression analysis
Wanzenböck, Iris; Scherngell, Thomas; Fischer, Manfred M. - 2011
In the recent past, interest of Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) policies to influence the innovation behaviour of firms has been increased considerably. This gives rise to the notion of behavioural additionality, broadening traditional evaluation concepts of input and output...
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Public subsidies, TFP and Efficiency : a tale of complex relationships
Bernini, Cristina; Cerqua, Augusto; Pellegrini, Guido - 2015
The paper analyses the causal effect of capital subsidies on firms' efficiency and productivity by exploiting the conditions for a local random experiment created by Law 488/92 (henceforth L488), which has been an important policy instrument for reducing territorial disparities in Italy. The...
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Ex-post evaluation of territorial integrated projects in Italy : an empirical analysis at firm level : 53rd ERSA Congress - Palermo - August 27-31, 2013
Cusimano, Alessandro; Mazzola, Fabio - 2013
This paper focuses on the evaluation of an incentive program for firms implemented in southern Italy during the last decade. In the framework of the policy instruments aimed to reduce territorial disparities, and to support local development, territorial integrated projects (TIP) constituted a...
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Regional effects of an emissions-reduction policy in China : taxes, subsidies and the method of financing
Chen, Anping; Groenewold, Nicolaas - 2013
tax on pollution and a subsidy on abatement activity. We help elucidate this policy choice by exploring the tax-subsidy … financing the tax or subsidy. We solve the model numerically based on Chinese data. We find that if revenue-recycling via lump … for the distribution of income between wages and profits) as an equivalent abatement subsidy. The move from recycling to …
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Counterfactual impact evaluation of enterprise support programmes : evidence from a decade of subsidies to Italian firm
Bondonio, Daniele; Biagi, Federico; Martini, Alberto - 2015 - Preliminary draft: March 2015
viable applicant firms that were denied the subsidy due to an exogenous, budget induced, cut-off point in the programme …
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The persistent effects of placed-based policy : evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet
Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Seidel, Tobias - 2015 - This version: May 2015
Using a natural experiment from Germany, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. We identify employment and capital formation as main channels for higher income per square kilometer. As the spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to...
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