Two for the price of one? On additionality effects of R&D subsidies: A comparison between Flanders and Germany
In this paper we empirically test whether public R&D subsidies crowd out private R&D investment in Flanders and Germany, using firm level data from the Flemish and German part of the Community Innovation survey (CIS III and IV). Both the non-parametric matching estimator and the conditional difference-in-difference estimator with repeated cross-sections (CDiDRCS) clearly indicate that the crowding-out hypothesis can be rejected: funded firms are significantly more R&D active than non-funded firms. In the domain of additionality effects of R&D subsidies, this paper is the first... Mehr ...
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| Dokumenttyp: | doc-type:workingPaper |
| Erscheinungsdatum: | 2006 |
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Mannheim: Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW)
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| Schlagwörter: | ddc:330 / O38 / H50 / C21 / C14 / R&D / Subsidies / Policy Evaluation / Conditional Difference-in-Difference |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-27475480 |
| Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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| Link(s) : | http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24518 |
In this paper we empirically test whether public R&D subsidies crowd out private R&D investment in Flanders and Germany, using firm level data from the Flemish and German part of the Community Innovation survey (CIS III and IV). Both the non-parametric matching estimator and the conditional difference-in-difference estimator with repeated cross-sections (CDiDRCS) clearly indicate that the crowding-out hypothesis can be rejected: funded firms are significantly more R&D active than non-funded firms. In the domain of additionality effects of R&D subsidies, this paper is the first to apply the CDiDRCS method.