INDUSTRIAL CLUSTERS, NETWORKS AND RESILIENCE TO THE COVID-19 SHOCK IN CHINA

Ruochen Dai (), Dilip Mookherjee, Yingyue Quan () and Xiaobo Zhang
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Ruochen Dai: Central University of Finance and Economics
Yingyue Quan: Peking University

No dp-353, Boston University - Department of Economics - The Institute for Economic Development Working Papers Series from Boston University - Department of Economics

Abstract: We examine how exposure of Chinese firms to the Covid-19 shock varied with a cluster index (measuring spatial agglomeration of firms in related industries) at the county level. Two data sources are used: entry flows of newly registered firms in the entire country, and an entrepreneur survey regarding operation of existing firms. Both show greater resilience in counties with a higher cluster index, after controlling for industry dummies and local infection rates, besides county and time dummies in the entry data. Reliance of clusters on informal entrepreneur hometown networks and closer proximity to suppliers and customers help explain these findings.

Keywords: Clusters; Covid-19; China; Firms; Social Networks (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 I3 J12 J16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2020-10
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cna, nep-cse, nep-geo, nep-net, nep-sbm, nep-tra and nep-ure
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