Dewit, Gerda and Abraham, F. (1997) A Case of Sectoral Export Promotion: Export Insurance Subsidies in Belgium. Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management, XLII (4). pp. 425-445. ISSN 0772-7674

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Abstract

In the last decade or so, the role of export subsidies has attracted renewed interest in the current policy debate and in the literature on strategic trade policy. While the theoretical literature is very stimulating, little is known about and scarce attention is paid to the facts about export subsidization. Simplifying, in most theoretical models governments grant production subsidies to domestic firms of an industry exporting to one specific market. In practice, several official agencies rn?y he invnlved in providing export credits and export insurance subsidies to many domestic sectors exporting to a wide range of export destinations. In spite of the work by Abraham (1990), Abraham et al. (1992), Ford and Suyker (1990), Jepma (1991), and the EC (1990), there is only partial information about the size of the subsidies involved and their sectoral and regional break-up. As a consequence, the subsidy structure resulting from a policy of export promotion remains unclear.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Sectoral Export Promotion; Export Insurance; Belgium;
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics, Finance and Accounting
Item ID:	3574
Depositing User:	Gerda Dewit
Date Deposited:	17 Apr 2012 14:14
Journal or Publication Title:	Tijdschrift voor Economie en Management
Publisher:	Katholieke Universiteit Te Leuven
Refereed:	Yes
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Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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