How to assess the significance of export incentives: an application to Turkey
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Date
1993-12Source Title
Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv
Print ISSN
1610-2878
Publisher
Springer
Volume
129
Issue
4
Pages
777 - 800
Language
English
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Abstract
This paper analyzes the changes in the structure of export incentives in
Turkey from 1983 to 1990. It shows that during the 1980s the level of the economy-wide
subsidy rates and that of the inter-industry dispersion of incentives have substantially
been lowered. Using the estimates of the effective subsidy figures it is shown that the
Turkish export- and import-competing industries have benefited from the export incentives more than the other sectors. Finally, it is emphasized that the system of export
incentives is too complicated and is therefore blurring the transparency of the incentive
system.