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Industrial Clusters, Networks and Resilience to the Covid-19 Shock in China / Ruochen Dai, Dilip Mookherjee, Yingyue Quan, Xiaobo Zhang.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dai, Ruochen.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w28000.
- NBER working paper series no. w28000
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2020.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- October 2020.
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