The effect of government grants on plant
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Sourafel Girma; Holger Görg; Eric Strobl
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Article
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2007
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Elsevier Science
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English
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We investigate whether government subsidies stimulate productivity growth, using a unique plant level data set from Ireland. We find that only grants that support productivity enhancing activities increase total factor productivity. Financially constrained plants benefit most from such grants.