Effectiveness of R&D subsidies during the crisis: firm-level evidence across EU countries
David Aristei,
Alessandro Sterlacchini () and
Francesco Venturini ()
Economics of Innovation and New Technology, 2017, vol. 26, issue 6, 554-573
Abstract:
This paper is one of the first attempts in the literature to evaluate the effectiveness of R&D policies in Europe during the great crisis of the late 2000s. Using homogenous firm-level data for the largest EU Member States over the period 2007–2009, we test whether manufacturing firms receiving public subsidies spent more on R&D. The analysis is performed using both non-parametric techniques and parametric estimation methods accounting for the possible endogenous selectivity of R&D subsidies. The hypothesis of full crowding-out is rejected in all countries under exam as firms did not replace their own resources with public grants. However, these firms did not allocate additional funds to research and hence, differently from earlier works, we do not find evidence for additionality effects of R&D subsidies. Our estimates indicate that, albeit not expansive, public subsidies to R&D thwarted the reduction of firm R&D efforts in the aftermath of economic crisis.
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1080/10438599.2016.1249543
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