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Article: Policy on international R+D cooperation: subsidy or tax?
Title | Policy on international R+D cooperation: subsidy or tax? |
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Issue Date | 1998 |
Publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/eer |
Citation | European Economic Review, 1998, v. 42 n. 9, p. 1727-1750 How to Cite? |
Abstract | In this paper we derive the non-cooperative, optimal policy towards international R+D cooperation. Two types of R+D cooperation are considered: collaboration and coordination. When firms cooperate, the familiar strategic behavior, which prevails in R+D competition, is reduced, or eliminated, or even completely reversed. However, we prove that R+D subsidy is still an optimal policy for individual governments in the case of R+D coordination and, more strikingly, the subsidies are larger for higher degrees of coordination. Government policies do not help the firms to commit. In the case of R+D collaboration, both R+D subsidy and tax are possible. With linear demands, however, tax is never optimal; moreover, we show that the optimal policy is subsidy regardless of the strategic nature (substitute or complement) of the strategy variables, a result that contradicts the traditional wisdom. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/177929 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 2.8 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 2.251 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Qiu, LD | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Tao, Z | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-12-19T09:40:52Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-12-19T09:40:52Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 1998 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | European Economic Review, 1998, v. 42 n. 9, p. 1727-1750 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issn | 0014-2921 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/177929 | - |
dc.description.abstract | In this paper we derive the non-cooperative, optimal policy towards international R+D cooperation. Two types of R+D cooperation are considered: collaboration and coordination. When firms cooperate, the familiar strategic behavior, which prevails in R+D competition, is reduced, or eliminated, or even completely reversed. However, we prove that R+D subsidy is still an optimal policy for individual governments in the case of R+D coordination and, more strikingly, the subsidies are larger for higher degrees of coordination. Government policies do not help the firms to commit. In the case of R+D collaboration, both R+D subsidy and tax are possible. With linear demands, however, tax is never optimal; moreover, we show that the optimal policy is subsidy regardless of the strategic nature (substitute or complement) of the strategy variables, a result that contradicts the traditional wisdom. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | Elsevier BV. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.elsevier.com/locate/eer | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | European Economic Review | en_US |
dc.rights | European Economic Review. Copyright © Elsevier BV. | - |
dc.title | Policy on international R+D cooperation: subsidy or tax? | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Qiu, LD: larryqiu@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Tao, Z: ztao@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Qiu, LD=rp01093 | en_US |
dc.identifier.authority | Tao, Z=rp01097 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/S0014-2921(97)00097-4 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-0345390146 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 43988 | - |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-0345390146&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.volume | 42 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issue | 9 | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 1727 | en_US |
dc.identifier.epage | 1750 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000077018000007 | - |
dc.publisher.place | Netherlands | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Qiu, LD=7201538008 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Tao, Z=7201884505 | en_US |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0014-2921 | - |