. Chapter 1 looks at the widely used practice of allocating government R&D subsidies to private companies. We point out flaws of … allocation of subsidies. Chapter 2 revisits the literature on the sale, and, in particular, auctioning, of patent licenses by an …

human capital accumulation: subsidies and land reforms. The paid subsidy or the transferred land must generate an income … subsidy policies. Subsidies contingent to school attendance are more cost-effective, i.e. require less resources per household …. Conditional subsidies therefore allow a society to be educated and to be free of poverty in a shorter span of time. However, one …

develop a theoretical model that explains how a particular set of WTO rules, the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing … Measures (SCM), affect the choice and the level of tariffs and subsidies -- two of the most important and frequently observed … redistribution policies -- in an acceding country. The WTO SCM agreement guides the subsidies that could be used by a member country …

subsidies to innovation. Government subsidies for research and development are intended to promote projects with high returns to …