Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/192131 
Year of Publication: 
1995
Series/Report no.: 
Discussion Papers No. 147
Publisher: 
Statistics Norway, Research Department, Oslo
Abstract: 
We measure the effective assistance to 17 Norwegian private industries in 1989 and 1991 caused by government budgetary subsidies, indirect commodity taxes, import protection through nominal tariffs and non-tariff barriers, and electricity market distortions. The assistance effects are measured by the change in the net-of-tax value added price due to a removal of the policy measures considered. Most industries were effectively assisted, but the effective assistance differs widely between industries indicating the overall distortive effect on the industry structure. Agriculture, Food Processing and Manufacture of Beverages and Tobacco stand out as the most assisted industries. Budgetary subsidies and non-tariff barriers had the strongest effective assistance effect.
Subjects: 
Effective Rates of Assistance
Industrial Policy
JEL: 
F13
H25
L60
L71
Document Type: 
Working Paper
Document Version: 
Digitized Version

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