Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/142019 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
IWH Discussion Papers No. 18/2016
Publisher: 
Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle (IWH), Halle (Saale)
Abstract: 
The German government provides discretionary investment grants to structurally weak regions to reduce regional disparities. We use a regression discontinuity design that exploits an exogenous discrete jump in the probability of receiving investment grants to identify the causal effects of the investment grant on regional outcomes. We find positive effects for regional gross value-added and productivity growth, but no effects for employment and gross wage growth.
Subjects: 
evaluation
industrial policy
regression discontinuity design
JEL: 
A11
D61
H20
Z00
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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