Two for the price of one?. Additionality effects of R&D subsidies: A comparison between Flanders and Germany

Research Policy

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 806-822

  Aerts, Kris ^a   Schmidt, Tobias ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b DEUTSCHE BUNDESBANK   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditional difference in differences; Policy evaluation; R D; Subsidies

Indexed keywords

INNOVATION; NUMERICAL METHODS; PUBLIC POLICY; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

CONDITIONAL DIFFERENCE-IN-DIFFERENCES; POLICY EVALUATION; SUBSIDIES;

COSTS;

EID: 43449096329     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2008.01.011     Document Type: Article

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