business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … control group, we address the question if and to what extent these investment tax incentives boosted investment. In line with … were cut back in 1997. Moreover, there was a significant reduction in building investment in the year after the expiration …

The main objective of the present paper is to estimate the extent to which firm investment is substituted (crowded …-out) by investment support policies granted under the EU Rural Development Programme (RDP). In the empirical analyses we …