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Industrialization Under Medieval Conditions? Global Development after Covid-19

Naudé, Wim - 2021

Industrialization is vital for inclusive and sustainable global development. The two engines of industrialization â€“ innovation and trade â€“ are in danger of being compromised by the COVID-19 pandemic, under conditions increasingly reminiscent of the medieval world. It comes at a...

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Investment Grants and Firms' Productivity : How Effective is a Grant Booster Shot?

Alexandre, Fernando; Chaves, Miguel; Portela, Miguel - 2022

This paper investigates the effect of awarding a second investment grant to the same firm. We implement a Regression Discontinuity Design strategy using a very rich firm-level administrative database, which allows us to link applications to grants and their scores to firms' performance. Overall,...

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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

Criscuolo, Chiara - 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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Export-Led Growth after Covid-19 : The Case of Portugal

Naudé, Wim; Cameron, Martin - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted trade and global value chains. Small open economies such as Portugal are particularly vulnerable. In this paper we consider the impact of the pandemic on the country's exports, arguing that an export-led recovery is possible. The challenge is to identify...

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Public Funding and Corporate Innovation

Beck, Mathias - 2017

We review and condense the body of literature on the economic returns of public R&D on private R&D and find that: (i) private returns to R&D appear to be large and larger than the returns to alternative investments; (ii) private R&D and R&D subsidies are positively correlated and there is no...

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Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies

Pflüger, Michael - 2009

firms where government subsidizes entry of domestic entrepreneurs. Under autarky the entry subsidy indirectly corrects for …

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Subsidies and Exports in Germany : First Evidence from Enterprise Panel Data

Girma, Sourafel - 2009

We use newly available representative panel data for manufacturing enterprises in West and East Germany to investigate the link between production-related subsidies and exports. We document that only a small fraction of enterprises is subsidized, and that exports and subsidies are positively...

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Europe Agreements and Trade Balance : Evidence Form Four New EU Members

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2011

This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...

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Caring for Carers? The Effect of Public Subsidies on the Wellbeing of Unpaid Carers

Costa-Font, Joan; D'Amico, Francesco; Vilaplana Prieto, … - 2022

We study the effect of long-term care (LTC) subsidies and supports on the wellbeing of unpaid caregivers. We draw on evidence from a policy intervention, that universalized previously means-tested caregiving supports in Scotland, known as free personal care (FPC). We document causal evidence of...

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How Effective are Hiring Subsidies to Reduce Long-Term Unemployment Among Prime-Aged Jobseekers? Evidence from Belgium

Desiere, Sam; Cockx, Bart - 2022

abolition of a hiring subsidy targeted at long-term unemployed jobseekers over 45 years of age in Belgium to evaluate its … effectiveness in the short and medium run. Based on a triple difference methodology the hiring subsidy is shown to increase the job … at least a bachelor's degree. However, the hiring subsidy mainly created temporary short-lived employment: eligible …

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