Industrial policy in Great Britain and its effect on total factor productivity in manufacturing plants, 1990-1998

被引：39

作者：

Harris, R ^{[1
]}

Robinson, C

机构：

[1] Univ Newcastle, Newcastle, NSW 2308, Australia

[2] Natl Inst Econ & Social Res, London SW1P 3HE, England

来源：

SCOTTISH JOURNAL OF POLITICAL ECONOMY | 2004年 / 51卷 / 04期

关键词：

UK Industrial Policy; Regional Selective Assistance; Total Factor Productivity;

D O I：

10.1111/j.0036-9292.2004.00319.x

中图分类号：

F [经济];

学科分类号：

02 ;

摘要：

Industrial policy in any economy has a number of varying and occasionally conflicting objectives, but the overarching intention of the various grants, subsidies and support schemes, arguably, must be to improve the economic performance of the plants they assist directly. However, in the absence of counterfactual evidence, whether or not assistance does improve performance is hard to establish. In this paper, we consider the impact of two UK government industrial support schemes (Regional Selective Assistance and the Small Firm Merit Awards for Research and Technology) on UK manufacturing plant level total factor productivity in an attempt to answer the question, 'did assistance make a difference?'

引用

页码：528 / 543

页数：16

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