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Why Industrial Policies Fail: Limited Commitment

Karp, Larry; Perloff, Jeffrey - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

Government policies designed to give domestic exporters a strategic advantage in world markets are completely effective only if the government can commit to those policies for as long as they affect firms' decisions. Export subsidies or other output policies that affect firms only in the current...

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Losers, Winners and Prisoner's Dilemma in International Subsidy Wars

Pires, Garcia; José, Armando - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

policy prisoner dilemma in international subsidy wars (i.e. countries have incentives to support local firms but they would …

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Industrial Policy and Firm Heterogeneity

Barros, Pedro Luis Pita; Nilssen, Tore - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

Our concern is about a firm-specific industrial policy. When R&D subsidies or taxes are differentiated among firms, the question arises which firms in an industry should receive such support. We analyse a situation where firms differ in their R&D technologies in two distinct ways: they differ...

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Market Access for Sale: Latin America's Lobbying for US Tariff Preferences

Kee, Hiau Looi; Olarreaga, Marcelo; Silva, Peri - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

This Paper assesses the foreign lobbying forces behind the tariff preferences that the United States grants to Latin American countries. The basic framework is one developed by Grossman and Helpman (1994) that is extended to explain the relationship between foreign lobbying and tariff...

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The Impact of R&D Subsidies on the Introduction of New Products by Incumbent Firms

Siebert, Ralph - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

quality and withdraws the existing product from the market. Providing an R&D subsidy to a high-quality firm results in a new … product with higher quality than an R&D subsidy provided to a low-quality firm, at the expense of all consumers paying higher … prices for all goods in the market. When the R&D subsidy is small, the low quality firm may not introduce a new product into …

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Net Neutrality with Competing Internet Platforms

Bourreau, Marc; Kourandi, Frago; Valletti, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We propose a two-sided model with two competing Internet platforms, and a continuum of Content Providers (CPs). We study the effect of a net neutrality regulation on capacity investments in the market for Internet access, and on innovation in the market for content. Under the alternative...

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Scrapping Subsidies during the Financial Crisis - Evidence from the Europe

Leheyda, Nina; Verboven, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We study the effects of the car scrapping subsidies in Europe during the financial crisis. We make use of a rich data set of all car models sold in nine European countries, observed at a monthly level during 2005-2011. We employ a difference-in-differences approach, exploiting the fact that...

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Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy in a Panel of Chinese Cities

Alder, Simon; Shao, Lin; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We estimate the effect on economic development of China's industrial policy, in particular, the establishment of Special Economic Zones (SEZ). We use data from a panel of 276 Chinese cities and prefectures from 1988 to 2010. Our difference-in-difference estimator exploits the variation in the...

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The causal effects of an industrial policy

Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...

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A Touch of Sophistication: FDI and Unit Values of Exports

Harding, Torfinn; Javorcik, Beata - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more "sophisticated" products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence suggesting...

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