全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP4172 Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP4172
	DP4172 Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market
	Rudolf Winter-Ebmer; Uwe Dulleck; Paul Frijters
发表日期	2004-01-23
出版年	2004
语种	英语
摘要	Should R&D policies within an economic union be centralized or decentralized to each individual country? Do non-cooperative policies - typically implying policy competition between countries - always give rise to too high R&D subsidies in a decentralized policy regime? Should small countries subsidize R&D more than larger countries? To address such questions, we construct a simple model with horizontally differentiated consumer goods, where each firm may invest in quality-improving R&D. Assuming that the goods are produced in different countries within an economic union, we compare non-cooperative and cooperative R&D policies. We show that non-cooperative policies imply too small R&D subsidies for horizontally differentiated goods and too high subsidies for goods that are close substitutes. Furthermore, small, net exporting countries of R&D intensive goods have fewer incentives to subsidize R&D than large countries, resulting in an unwarranted vertical product differentiation between goods produced in different countries. Coordination of R&D policies at the union level helps overcome some of these problems. If only a subset of countries cooperate, however, union welfare may be lower than if there is no R&D cooperation at all.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics
关键词	R&d Policy game Economic union
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp4172
来源智库	Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/533143
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Rudolf Winter-Ebmer,Uwe Dulleck,Paul Frijters. DP4172 Reducing Start-Up Costs for New Firms: The Double Dividend on the Labour Market. 2004.