Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>Firms may face short term barriers when deciding to become exporters. Their production costs may be too high to compete with international prices, or they may perceive quality standard testing to be too risky of an investment. At the same time, the Tunisian government is keen to see more firms become exporters, tapping into international markets for further growth. The government wishes to see its firms produce higher value-added goods. A World Bank research team is investigating whether export subsidy rebates and matching grants can lower these initial barriers, nudging domestic-oriented firms to being exporting.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/competitiveness-policy-impact-evaluation-lab/brief/impact-of-matching-grants-on-exports-in-tunisia Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question How can export subsidy rebates and matching grants lower barriers to exports? Sample Trial population and sample selection Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Two interventions: 1: export subsidy rebates to encourage increased export volume, exporting new product variety, and/or exporting to new (advanced) markets; 2: subsidy for obtaining required quality standards certificates and accreditation to export to new market or new product variety. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Export/ import activity, business productivity.</p> Results Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Rahman, A. (forthcoming). 'How Effective the Matching Grant Scheme in Improving Firm Performance and Export Outcomes (Tunisia Matching Grant Impact Evaluation)'. Ongoing research. Citation for use in academic references
