Kasahara, Hiroyuki; Shimotsu, Katsumi; Suzuki, Michio - 2013
To what extent does a tax credit affect firms ́R&D activity? What are the mechanisms? This paper examines the effect of R&D tax credits on firms ́R&D expenditure by exploiting the variation across firms in the changes in the eligible tax credit rate between 2000 and 2003. Estimating the...