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How to promote R&D-based growth? : public education expenditure on scientists and engineers versus R&D subsidies

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dc.creator Grossmann, Volker
dc.date 2004
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:01:42Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:01:42Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/18864
dc.identifier ppn:391082507
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/18864
dc.description Empirical evidence suggests that positive externalities from R&D exceed negative ones. According to conventional wisdom, this calls for R&D subsidies. This paper develops a quality-ladder growth model with overlapping generations which evaluates the positive and normative implications of R&D subsidies and compares them with the effects of public education policy to promote R&D. Unlike standard growth models, the proposed framework accounts for the specificity of science and engineering (S&E) skills, where individuals endogenously choose the type of education, and allows for heterogeneity in individual ability. Although intertemporal knowledge spillovers are hypothesized and negative R&D externalities are absent, the analysis shows somewhat surprisingly that R&D subsidies may be detrimental to both productivity growth and welfare, in contrast to publicly provided education targeted to S&E skills. Finally, the optimal structure of public education spending on different skills is examined.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher
dc.relation CESifo working papers 1225
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject O31
dc.subject H20
dc.subject O41
dc.subject O38
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject education policy
dc.subject endogenous growth
dc.subject R&D subsidies
dc.subject scientists and engineers
dc.subject Hochschulfinanzierung
dc.subject Öffentliche Bildungsausgaben
dc.subject Forschungssubvention
dc.subject Vergleich
dc.subject Neue Wachstumstheorie
dc.subject Bildungsverhalten
dc.subject Theorie
dc.title How to promote R&D-based growth? : public education expenditure on scientists and engineers versus R&D subsidies
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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