We study how the threat of entry affects service quantity and quality of general prac- titioners (GPs). We leverage Germany’s needs-based primary care planning system, in which the likelihood of new GPs reduces by 20 percentage points when primary care coverage exceeds a cut-off. We compile...

The paper evaluates the impact of the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) grants on profit-oriented firms' post-treatment performance. Using a quasi-experimental design and a dataset covering applicants from 46 countries, we find that FP7 grants increase firms' sales and...