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The impact of public employment : evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha O.; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - 2018

This paper evaluates the impact of public employment on private sector activity using the relocation of the German federal government from Berlin to Bonn in the wake of the Second World War as a source of exogenous variation. To guide our empirical analysis, we develop a simple economic...

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Making subsidies work : rules vs. discretion

Cingano, Federico; Palomba, Filippo; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022

subsidy. Younger firms did better than older firms. Firms ranking high on objective criteria and firms preferred by local …

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Making subsidies work : rules vs. discretion

Cingano, Federico; Palomba, Filippo; Pinotti, Paolo; … - 2022

We estimate the employment effects of a large program of public investment subsidies that ranked applications on a score reflecting both objective criteria and local politicians' preferences. Leveraging the rationing of funds as an ideal RDD, we characterize the heterogeneity of treatment...

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Public subsidies, TFP and Efficiency : a tale of complex relationships

Bernini, Cristina; Cerqua, Augusto; Pellegrini, Guido - 2015

The paper analyses the causal effect of capital subsidies on firms' efficiency and productivity by exploiting the conditions for a local random experiment created by Law 488/92 (henceforth L488), which has been an important policy instrument for reducing territorial disparities in Italy. The...

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Are the subsidies to private capital useful? : a multiple regression discontinuity design approach

Pellegrini, Guido; Cerqua, Augusto - 2011

There is still little consensus on the effectiveness of business support policies. The empirical evaluation is complicated by the difficulty in achieving reliable identification. We analyse the impact of Law 488/92, the main Italian regional policy. We propose a new approach, named multiple...

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Do subsidies to private capital boost firms' growth? A multiple regression discontinuity design approach

Cerqua, Augusto; Pellegrini, Guido - In: Journal of public economics 109 (2014), pp. 114-126

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The impact of public employment : evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha O.; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - 2017

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The impact of public employment : evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha O.; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - 2017

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The effects of regional subsidies to the spatial distribution of economic activity and welfare in the constructed capital model : paper for the ERSA 2010 conference, Jonkoping

Tafenau, Egle - 2010

welfare argument. Moreover, different tax systems are compared with respect to the size of the subsidy needed for achieving a … adverse effects of subsidies can at least be alleviated. A proportional subsidy to capital increases the overall capital stock …, enabling to draw utility from a wider variety of goods. However, the regional effects are different: compared to the no-subsidy …

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The impact of public employment : evidence from Bonn

Becker, Sascha O.; Heblich, Stephan; Sturm, Daniel - In: Journal of urban economics 122 (2021), pp. 1-20

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