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Subsidizing National Champions: An Evolutionary Perspective

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Cécile Aubert ()
Oliver Falck ()
Stephan Heblich ()

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A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a simple model, we show that it may be efficient to subsidize innovative firms in their early stages or to protect mature firms from competition to appropriate these externalities. However, non-benevolent politicians may not choose efficient policies. Real-world examples indicate that politicians tend to concentrate on externalities at the mature stage of the lifecycle. These externalities may be transitory or at the expense of foreign country consumers.

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Paper provided by CESifo Group Munich in its series CESifo Working Paper Series with number CESifo Working Paper No. 2380.

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Keywords: national champions; industrial policy; industry lifecycle; externalities;

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L52 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - Industrial Policy; Sectoral Planning Methods
O25 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Development Planning and Policy - - - Industrial Policy
O33 - Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth - - Technological Change - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
P11 - Economic Systems - - Capitalist Systems - - - Planning, Coordination, and Reform

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