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Using economic analysis to assess R&D&I State aid measures
I. Introduction European State aid control has become an integral part of competition policy. As in other fields of competition policy it focuses on the negative effects of a measure on competition and trade and balances these with potential positive effects. In this way, counterfactual analysis, market definition and an effects-based analysis in certain cases are the unifying themes of modern economic analysis as applied to competition policy. T