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When Government Policies Improve Firm Performance

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Based on the theoretical studies in Chap. 3, this chapter, which is mainly based on (Forrest et al., to appear, Market competition and economic effects of government policies), investigates conditions under which government policies can be expected to improve the economic performance of firms through their market offers that can be either physical products, services, or informational goods.

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  1. Department of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania, Slippery Rock, PA, USA

    Jeffrey Yi-Lin Forrest

  2. School of Business, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, Jiangsu, China

    Yong Liu

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Forrest, J.YL., Liu, Y. (2022). When Government Policies Improve Firm Performance. In: Value in Business. Contributions to Management Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82898-1_20

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