Regional policy: What is the most efficient instrument?

Papers in Regional Science

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 491-507

  Laurent, Hélène ^a   Mignolet, Michel ^a   Meunier, Olivier ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAMUR   (Belgium)

^b Institut Wallon de l'Evaluation   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Capital grant; Corporate tax cut; Productivity handicap; Publicly provided input; Regional policy

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; ECONOMIC POLICY; NUMERICAL MODEL; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; PRODUCTIVITY; REGIONAL POLICY; TAX SYSTEM;

EURASIA; EUROPE; FRANCE; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 68549104347     PISSN: 10568190     EISSN: 14355957     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1435-5957.2008.00214.x     Document Type: Article

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