@techreport{Barros1999Industrial,
abstract = {Our concern is with a firm-specific industrial policy. When R&D subsidies or taxes are differentiated among firms, the question arises which firms in an industry should receive such support. We analyze a situation where firms differ in their R&D technologies in two distinct ways: They differ both in the costs of performing R&D activities and in the output obtained from such activities. We find that the optimal firm-specific industrial policy is affected differently by the two sources of firm heterogeneity. Furthermore, a change in a firm's R&D productivity has an ambiguous effect on the optimal policy towards the firm.},
address = {Oslo},
author = {Pedro P. Barros and Tore Nilssen},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {F13; L52; O31; 330; firm heterogeneity; industrial policy; R&D; Forschungssubvention; Industrielle Forschung; Steuerbeg\"{u}nstigung; Industriepolitik; Theorie},
language = {eng},
number = {1999,02},
publisher = {Dep. of Economics, Univ. of Oslo},
title = {Industrial policy and firm heterogeneity},
type = {Memorandum, Department of Economics, University of Oslo},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/63003},
year = {1999}
}
