An economic evaluation of public programs for internationalization: The case of the Diagnostic program in Spain

José M. Cansino, Jaime Lopez-Melendo, Maria Pablo-Romero () and Antonio Sánchez-Braza

Evaluation and Program Planning, 2013, vol. 41, issue C, 38-46

Abstract: This paper evaluates the Diagnostic Program in Spain which is a publicly funded program to promote internationalization of companies located in Andalusia (south of Spain). The methodology used is the propensity score-matching. The treatment group consists of companies which participated in the Program until 2008. The control group has companies which planned to participate in the Program but had not done so up to that date. The response variable measures the ratio of export to total sales for each company. Four covariates have been taken into account: activity, location, sales and number of employees. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the companies that participated in the Program improved their ratio of exports to total sales by about 10 percentage points.

Keywords: Public policies evaluation; Internationalization programs; Statistical causal inference; Propensity score-matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H O (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.evalprogplan.2013.07.002

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