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Short-Run Strategies For Attracting Foreign Direct Investment

Azemar, Celine; Desbordes, Rodolphe - Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE) - 2010

This paper empirically investigates the effectiveness and feasibility of two FDI policies, fiscal incentives and … fiscal incentives or the deregulation of the labour market would exert a positive impact on total FDI. Given the drawbacks … biases that have affected results of previous studies and provides some support to recent theoretical models of FDI by …

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How do local governments decide on public policy in fiscal federalism? Tax vs. expenditure optimization

Koethenbuerger, Marko - In: Journal of Public Economics 95 (2011) 11, pp. 1516-1522

Previous literature widely assumes that taxes are optimized in local public finance while expenditures adjust residually. This paper endogenizes the choice of the optimization variable. In particular, it analyzes how federal policy toward local governments' influences the way local governments...

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Structural Reforms in Latin America: What Has Been Reformed and How to Measure It

Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

This document is an update of an earlier study (Lora, 1997), which argued that the lack of direct measurements of structural policies had stood in the way of adequately evaluating the effects of the reforms on economic growth and other variables. The aim is to describe and measure the advance of...

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How do local governments decide on public policy in fiscal federalism?: tax vs. expenditure optimization

Köthenbürger, Marko - 2008

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The role of fiscal instruments in environmental policy

Kosonen, Katri; Nicodème, Gaëtan J.A. - 2009

Environmental protection is one of Europe's key values. The EU has set clear policy objectives to achieve its environmental goals. The EU has favoured market-based instruments, among which fiscal instruments to tackle the climate change problem. This paper takes a policy-making perspective and...

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The Problem of Private Under-investment in Innovation: A Policy Mind Map

Peneder, Michael - 2008

This paper reviews the major finance-related causes of private under-investment in innovation and the consequent alternative choices for public policy. The focus is on incentive-based arguments that address the problem of limited appropriability of new knowledge, and on the lacking access to...

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Origem de capital e acesso aos incentivos fiscais e financeiros à inovação no Brasil

Zucoloto, Graziela Ferrero - 2012

This paper analyses Brazilian innovation polices, focusing on the access of subsidiaries and national enterprises to selected public innovation instruments: subvention, credit and Law 11.196/05. It presents theoretical aspects of government incentives to innovation; international experiences;...

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Fiscal Incentives and Policy Choices of Local Governments, Evidence from China

Han, Li; Kung, James - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), … - 2015

This paper examines how fiscal incentives affect the policy choices of local governments in the context of China. Based on exogenous changes in the intergovernmental revenue sharing scheme, we construct a simulated instrumental variable to resolve the endogeneity problem. We find evidence that...

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Internal and external effects of R&D subsidies and fiscal incentives: Empirical evidence using spatial dynamic panel models

Montmartin, Benjamin; Herrera, Marcos - In: Research Policy 44 (2015) 5, pp. 1065-1079

Most studies evaluating the macroeconomic effects of financial support policies on business-funded R&D use econometric methods that do not consider the existence of spatial effects, and generate biased estimates. In this paper, we discus and address this problem using spatial dynamic panel data...

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Paskatų tiesioginėms užsienio investicijoms taikymo ypatumai naujose Europos Sąjungos šalyse

Lieškūnaitė, Inga - 2008

This paper deals with analyzing investment incentives for foreign direct investment (FDI) concentrating on new European … theoretical aspects of FDI incentives are described, then modern trends of FDI are examined and hypotheses about the range and … research is divided into two stages, where quantity and variety of investment incentives is estimated and summary score of FDI …

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