The Impact of Governmental Intervention by the Example of Airbus and Boeing

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The impact of governmental intervention by the example of Airbus and Boeing Governmental intervention always had and will have a huge influence on management decisions, the development of a company and its image on global markets. The following text deals with the benefits for the subsidized employers and the resulting conflicts for the different parties, which are involved in the whole chain of the occurring consequences. With the example of Airbus and Boeing this text will handle these issues by the special governmental intervention of subsidization and will face the question, if there are benefits for the subsidized companies, Airbus and Boeing, or the European and U.S. government. Furthermore it will display the effects on the tax payer. “In the case of competition law and policy, the main objectives of government intervention are to respond to market failures, to limit abuses of market power, and to improve economic efficiency” (1). In other words you can say that governments intervene, to gain advantages for certain national or international (in the case of European intervention) markets, companies and/ or interest groups. Intervention can be realized by limiting trade through trade barriers, export controls, quotas and tarrifs, which influence the sales and market shares of the foreign business on the national and the international market, where domestic products are needed or are in danger of being copied. Another way is to raise capital in the form of subsidies, where financiers give money to certain companies or branches on the domestic market, to assure their economical success or their gaining establishment on the (international) market. In this text the focus lies on the second displayed way of government intervention – the subsidization. At first it is important to understand what subsidization means. There are two basic ways of

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