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18 March 2016
On the LSE Business Review blog, work by Nguyen and Van Reenen using an RDD to show that tax credits increased R&D spending and innovation among SMEs in the UK.
The item was published by The World Bank on March 18, 2016
Link to article here
Related articles
UK business R&D would be 10 percent lower in the absence of tax breaks, write Kieu-Trang Nguyen and John Van Reenen. Article on the LSE Business Review blog, published 11 March 2016.
Related publications
'Do Fiscal Incentives Increase Innovation? An RD Design for R&D', Antoine Dechezlepretre, Elias Einio, Ralf Martin, Kieu-Trang Nguyen and John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1413, March 2016.
Related links
Kieu-Trang Nguyen webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Growth Programme webpage