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Active Private Sector Development Policies Revisited: Impacts of the Ethiopian Industrial Cluster Policy
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posted on 2018-03-12, 06:29 authored by Tigabu Degu Getahun, Espen VillangerWe analyse impacts of a cluster policy aiming to increase firm growth through maximising agglomeration benefits and improving production facilities. Firms located in a natural cluster were incentivised to move to a new government-created cluster. A limited number of firms were allowed to move, and many similar firms, also eager to move but could not, formed our comparison group. Controlling for selection, and employing difference in-difference estimation, we find large negative effects on job-creation and firm performance. The policy hampered the firms’ business and knowledge networks, reduced trust among firms, increased transaction costs and curbed market information.
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This work was supported by the Fiat Panis Foundation [Dr. Hermann Eiselen grant programme].
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Sector Development Policies Revisitedincrease firm growthanalyse impactscluster policycomparison grouptransaction costsgovernment-created clusterknowledge networksEthiopian Industrial Cluster Policydifference in-difference estimationfirm performanceproduction facilitiesmaximising agglomeration benefitsmarket information
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