little is known about the effectiveness of such subsidies. This paper summarizes the empirical literature concerning direct … project subsidies, tax credits, and support for industrial research institutes. This helps to identify what makes government …

This study investigates the impact of R&D subsidies on R&D investment during the past financial crisis. We conduct a … treatment effects analysis and show that R&D subsidies increased R&D spending among subsidized small and medium sized firms in …

The WTO agricultural negotiation round of Doha has the aim to cut down export subsidies, to improve market access and … and production solely on the basis of world market prices, but should react to policy incentives like subsidies. ... …

correcting R&D market failures, can be useful complements to emissions pricing, but ambitious renewable targets or subsidies seem …

We study how healthcare subsidies and improved information affect over- and under-use of primary healthcare in a …. Using nine weeks of daily data, we show that the barrier to optimal care seeking is cost, not information: subsidies …

The effects of public subsidies in supporting innovative activity is subject to long-standing debates. Since empirical …. In a creative real effort task simulating the innovation process, two distinct means of allocating subsidies are compared … to a benchmark treatment without subsidies to identify their effects in fostering innovativeness. Furthermore, subjects …

goal could be implemented in different countries through taxes or subsidies. Finally, we discuss the distributional effects …