Tax incentives and R & D activity: Firm-level evidence from Taiwan

Research Policy

Volumn 41, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1578-1588

  Yang, Chih Hai ^a   Huang, Chia Hui ^b   Hou, Tony Chieh Tse ^c  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b ALETHEIA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Propensity score matching; R D; Tax

Indexed keywords

ENDOGENEITY; FIRM HETEROGENEITY; GENERALIZED METHOD OF MOMENTS; INSTRUMENTAL VARIABLES; MANUFACTURING FIRMS; MARGINAL EFFECTS; PROPENSITY SCORE; TAX; TAX CREDITS; TAX INCENTIVE;

ELASTICITY; INDUSTRY;

TAXATION;

EID: 84866311432     PISSN: 00487333     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.respol.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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