Arbeitspapier

Place-based policies and agglomeration economies: Firm-level evidence from special economic zones in India

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the direct and spillover effects of the program. We combine geocoded firm-level data and geocoded SEZs using a concentric ring approach, thus creating a novel dataset of firms with their assigned SEZ status. To overcome the selection bias we employ inverse probability weighting with time-varying covariates in a difference-in-differences framework. Our analysis yields that conditional on controlling for initial selection, the establishment of SEZs induced no further productivity gains for within SEZ firms, on average. This effect is predominantly driven by relatively less productive firms, whereas more productive firms experienced significant productivity gains. However, SEZs created negative externalities for firms in the vicinity which attenuate with distance. Neighbouring domestic firms, large firms, manufacturing firms and non-importer firms are the main losers of the program. Evidence points at the diversion of inputs from non-SEZ to SEZ-firms as a potential mechanism.

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 2209

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
Industrial Policy
Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Urban, Rural, and Regional Economics
General Regional Economics (includes Regional Data)
Regional Development Planning and Policy
Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics
International Investment; Long-term Capital Movements
Economic Impacts of Globalization: General
Thema
Special Economic Zones
India
TFP growth
firm performance
spillovers
time-varyingtreatment

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Görg, Holger
Mulyukova, Alina
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
(wo)
Kiel
(wann)
2022

Handle
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10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ

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Objekttyp

  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Görg, Holger
  • Mulyukova, Alina
  • Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)

Entstanden

  • 2022

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