Public Support to Clusters: A Firm Level Study of French ?Local Productive Systems?

Philippe Martin, Thierry Mayer and Florian Mayneris

No 7102, CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: This paper analyzes empirically a public policy promoting industrial clusters in France. Cluster policies have become popular in many countries but have not been extensively evaluated empirically. We use data on production and employment for firms that benefited from the policy and on firms that did not, both before and after the policy started. We first show that the policy selected firms in relative decline. Furthermore, our results suggest that the policy had no major effect on their productivity but may have helped them in terms of employment.

Keywords: Clusters; Localization economies; Public policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 R10 R11 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2008-12
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cse, nep-eec, nep-eff, nep-geo and nep-ure
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