Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Hanley, Aoife; Strobl, Eric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010
without support. The data relate to manufacturing plants in the Republic of Ireland, where industrial policy has a long …In this paper we use plant level data on the start-up size of new plant entries and detailed information on the grants … history of using discretionary grants to encourage employment growth. We use a matching procedure to deal with the issue of …