Effectiveness of Fiscal Incentives for R and D : Quasi-Experimental Evidence /

With growing academic and policy interest in research and development (R and D) tax incentives, the question about their effectiveness has become ever more relevant. In the absence of an exogenous policy reform, the simultaneous determination of companies' tax positions and their R and D spendi...

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Главный автор: Guceri, Irem
Другие авторы: Liu, Li
Формат: Журнал
Язык:English
Опубликовано: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Серии:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/084
Online-ссылка:Full text available on IMF
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