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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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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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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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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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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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Kann die Umsetzung überörtlicher Naturschutzbelange bei Kommunen durch Ergänzung des vorhandenen Naturschutzinstrumentariums um finanzielle Anreize verbessert werden? In vier deutschen Ländern (Bayern, Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen und Sachsen-Anhalt) und zwölf Beispielskommunen wird...
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This paper studies the impact of making personalized digital information available through a pension app on contributions to tax-favored retirement accounts. Using Swiss administrative pension fund data, we document limited take-up of fiscal incentives for retirement savings. Exploiting the...
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Countries trying to attract foreign direct investment often use various tools to influence the foreign investor's allocation decision including public subsidies in the form of investment incentives. However, the effects associated with providing these incentives are often questioned, especially...
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This paper examines the fiscal motives behind municipal governments' decisions to allocate commercial and residential land when two categories of land use are subject to different fiscal revenue alternatives: business-related tax and/or land rent. We use urban parcel-level land transfers during...
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The increasing level of competition for foreign direct investment (FDI) in the 1990s triggered many countries to offer … investigate the relationship between the two variables, this paper examines the impact of fiscal incentives on FDI using panel … to FDI. Another finding reveals the importance of infrastructure in increasing FDI. However, there is no significant link …
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