The effect of subsidy policies on the product quality improvement

Economic Modelling

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 687-696

  Shin, Inyong ^a   Kim, Hyunho ^b  

^a ASIA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Science and Technology Policy Institute (STEPI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Dynamic optimization; Quality improvement; R D; Subsidy policy; Time

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649336180     PISSN: 02649993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econmod.2010.01.008     Document Type: Article

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