Grant Support and Exporting Activity
利用爱尔兰制造业企业数据，结合非参数匹配和双重差分方法，发现大额资助能帮助已有出口企业增强国际竞争力，但对非出口企业启动出口作用有限。
This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal with the potential selection problem inherent in the analysis. Our results suggest that if grants are large enough they can encourage already exporting firms to compete more effectively on the international market. However, there is little evidence that grants encourage non-exporters to start exporting.