欧盟赠款对中小型企业的影响：保加利亚的证据

IF 2.8 2区经济学 Q1 ECONOMICS

Economic Systems Pub Date : 2024-06-20 DOI:10.1016/j.ecosys.2024.101244

Daniel Nigohosyan, Iglika Vassileva, Albena Vutsova

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摘要

本文探讨了欧盟（EU）在 2014-2020 年规划期间对保加利亚中小型企业（SMEs）的支持效果。特别是，本文采用了两种标准的反事实技术（差分法和倾向得分匹配法）来审查 "创新与竞争力 "业务计划（2014-2020 年）下的一项 2 亿欧元计划。分析表明，补助金对受资助公司的资产产生了积极的、具有统计意义的影响。对中小企业的收入和员工人均收入也产生了一些积极影响。然而，本文没有发现任何证据表明中小企业补助金支持了公司的盈利能力和就业。因此，研究结果对支持竞争力的资助计划的设计提出了质疑，因为这可能会导致选择表现更好的公司（"挑肥拣瘦"），而不会带来任何实质性的积极影响。

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The effects of EU grants on SMEs: Evidence from Bulgaria

The paper explores the effects of European Union (EU) support on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Bulgaria in the 2014–2020 programming period. In particular, it applies two standard counterfactual techniques (Difference-in-Differences and Propensity Score Matching) to review a 200-million EUR scheme under the Operational Programme ‘Innovation and Competitiveness’ (2014–2020). The analysis shows a positive and statistically significant effect of the grants on the assets of the supported companies. Some positive effects on the SMEs' revenues and revenues per employee have also been observed. However, the paper finds no evidence that the SME grants have supported the companies' profitability and employment. Thus, the findings raise questions about the design of grant schemes supporting competitiveness, which may lead to selecting better-performing companies (‘cherry-picking’) without providing any substantial positive effects.

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Economic Systems ECONOMICS-

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4.90

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48 days

期刊介绍： Economic Systems is a refereed journal for the analysis of causes and consequences of the significant institutional variety prevailing among developed, developing, and emerging economies, as well as attempts at and proposals for their reform. The journal is open to micro and macro contributions, theoretical as well as empirical, the latter to analyze related topics against the background of country or region-specific experiences. In this respect, Economic Systems retains its long standing interest in the emerging economies of Central and Eastern Europe and other former transition economies, but also encourages contributions that cover any part of the world, including Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, or Africa.