Research and innovation partnerships involving firms or firms and public research organizations (PROs) have been increasing over the last twenty years in OECD countries. In this paper we present empirical evidence about the impact of government sponsored R&D programs on firms' partnership...

In many OECD countries several public agencies are involved in granting some form of R&D subsidy to firms. Empirical work on the effects that subsidies have on firm behavior and performance has produced mixed evidence. We focus on the firm participation stage in R&D subsidy programs in order to...

Use of R&D subsidies to encourage private R&D activities is expanding in OECD countries. Empirical evidence on their effectiveness has produced mixed results so far. One possible explanation is that firms and project selection rules may be in practice quite heterogeneous both across agencies and...

The objective of this paper is to estimate a petrol consumption function for Spain and to evaluate the redistributive effects of petrol taxation. We use micro data from the Spanish Household Budget Survey of 1990/91 and model petrol consumption taking into account the effect that income changes...