Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/44858 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Citation: 
[Journal:] EIB Papers [ISSN:] 0257-7755 [Volume:] 11 [Issue:] 1 [Publisher:] European Investment Bank (EIB) [Place:] Luxembourg [Year:] 2006 [Pages:] 134-157
Publisher: 
European Investment Bank (EIB), Luxembourg
Abstract: 
Spillovers from national industrial policies can cause helpful or harmful competition among policy makers and helpful or harmful interactions among the targeted industries. As a result, it is not in general possible to say whether industrial policy coordination is good or bad. However, reaching agreement at the EU level on any type of policy - trade policy, monetary policy or industrial policy - is costly in terms of time, information, and political goodwill. The contrast between the vagueness of the benefits of coordination and the surety of the decision-making costs suggests that the EU has no need to set up a new institutional structure for coordinating industrial policy. In the few cases where the merits of coordination are obvious, such as public spending on R&D, they will be obvious to all and ad hoc cooperation will work.
Document Type: 
Article

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