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SUMMARY:MTEI Seminar by Prof. Dirk Czarnitzki\, KU Leuven
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DTEND:20130909T163000
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dirk Czarnitzki\, KU Leuven\n"Counterfactual impact eval
 uation of cohesion policy at the firm level”\nAuthors: Czarnitzki\, D.\,
  T. Doherr and C. Lopes-BentoAbstract\nThe European Cohesion Policy is des
 igned to reduce gaps between development levels of EU regions. Consequentl
 y most scholarly research on impacts of Cohesion Policy so far focused on 
 catching-up processes of EU regions. Newly available data\, however\, allo
 w studying policy effects directly at the recipient level rather than at t
 he macro (regional) level. The data allows differentiating between subsidi
 es given to not-for-profit institutions vs. firms\, and\, evenly important
 \, also enables researchers to distinguish among different types of suppor
 t\, such as R&D/innovation\, training programs\, investment into tangible 
 assets\, start-up support\, social and cultural initiatives and so forth.\
 nWe link this recipient data to a firm level database and test whether pos
 itive treatment effects of the policies can be identified at the microecon
 omic level\, which can be considered as a necessary precondition for catch
 ing-up at any higher level of aggregation. Using econometric treatment eff
 ect estimators\, we find that R&D and innovation support as well as subsid
 ies for investment into physical assets indeed have positive effects at th
 e firm level. However\, for the most common type of grants\, which is supp
 ort for education and training\, we do not find any significant effects.
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