The role of embeddedness in regional economic resistance

Anastasios Kitsos, Simone Grabner and Andre Carrascal Incera

No b759j, SocArXiv from Center for Open Science

Abstract: We study the role of local industrial embeddedness (the share of regional inter-industry economic activity that is anchored to a region) on regional resistance (the difference between pre- and post-crisis employment) to the 2008 Great Recession (GR) in EU and UK NUTS2 regions. The recession had profound effects in regional economies, which showed diverse performance based on their capacity to absorb the shock. The concept of economic resilience has been brought to the center of attention with several contributions exploring its determinants. However, the impact of the embeddedness of local economic systems in terms of sales and supplies has been largely unexplored. We use regional input-output tables to approximate the embeddedness of local economies between and, fixed-effects and quantile regressions to test its relationship to regional resistance between 2008 and 2011. We find that during the GR, regional industries opted to change input rather than output markets. Additionally, embeddedness has a curvilinear relationship to regional resistance which varies across the distribution of regional resistance performance. Finally, at the industry level we find regional embeddedness to be important to the resistance of manufacturing and financial and business services and sectoral embeddedness to matter more for the resistance of construction and wholesale, retail & IT. Our findings highlight nuances that policymakers should be aware of in planning for resilience.

Date: 2022-12-21
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