La valutazione dell'efficacia dei contributi de minimis alle imprese: un approccio basato sul Regression Discontinuity Design
Di Liberto, Adriana
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2019-01-01
Abstract
This paper investigates the effect of a policy aimed at supporting small firms, the De Minimis aid Program, in the Italian region of Sardinia. Both the characteristics and the way the policy has been implemented suggest the use of the Fuzzy RD methodology as the most suitable in this context. The analysis is carried out on a group of 174 small firms. The results show that the impact of the program is positive and significant but only for one of three waves of the Program. Moreover, they also suggest that, in this case, the estimated additional variation in employment is small, approximately 7 additional employees. Overall, the presence of both small sample problems and imperfect compliance imply that the results may suffer from problems of limited external validity and should be read with caution.File | Size | Format | |
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