Role of industrial district externalities in export and value-added performance: evidence from the population of italian firms
| Autor: | Leonardo Becchetti, Andrea de Panizza, Filippo Oropallo |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2007 |
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education.field_of_study
business.industry Population General Social Sciences Export performance Industrial district Economy Manufacturing Added value Economics Balance sheet business education Settore SECS-P/01 - Economia Politica Nexus (standard) Industrial organization Externality General Environmental Science |
| Popis: | Becchetti L., De Panizza A. and Oropallo F. (2007) Role of industrial district externalities in export and value-added performance: evidence from the population of Italian firms, Regional Studies 41, 601–621. The paper tries to shed light on the export and value-added performance of industrial districts by integrating information on the population of Italian firms (from the ASIA database of the Italian Statistical Institute) with balance sheet data for all limited-liability companies in selected manufacturing industries. The findings show that firms located in industrial districts (specialized or not in the leading manufacturing activity of the district) export more and have higher added value than firms located elsewhere, net of the impact of relevant controls. The robustness check undertaken on the agglomeration–performance nexus detects, as expected, a significant relationship between dichotomous district indicators and (global and industry-specific) continuous measures of agglomeration and specializat... |
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