SEZ Proliferation in India: Are the Objectives Being Realized?

Bhatt, Antra; Puri, Manas; Appolloni, Andrea

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“…Similar effects occur due to local level regulations and input markets (Greenstone et al 2012 ; Petrin and Sivadasan 2013 ). For India, in particular, Bhatt et al ( 2011 ) have also found strong correlation in establishment of SEZs and areas with higher inflow of foreign investments in India. Therefore, I include the following indicators A dummy for district of the enterprise.…”

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Model-Selection Inference for Causal Impact of Clusters and Collaboration on MSMEs in India

Gupta

2023

J. Quant. Econ.

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Do firms benefit more from agglomeration-based spillovers than the technical know-how obtained through inter-firm collaboration? Quantifying the relative value of the industrial policy of cluster development vis-à-vis firm’s internal decision of collaboration can be valuable for policy-makers and entrepreneurs. I observe the universe of Indian MSMEs inside an industrial cluster (Treatment Group 1), those in collaboration for technical know-how (Treatment Group 2) and those outside clusters with no collaboration (Control Group). Conventional econometric methods to identify the treatment effects would suffer from selection bias and misspecification of the model. I use two data-driven, model-selection methods, developed by (Belloni, A., Chernozhukov, V., and Hansen, C. (2013). Inference on treatment e ects after selection among high-dimensional controls. Review of Economic Studies, 81(2):608 650.) and (Chernozhukov, V., Hansen, C., and Spindler, M. (2015). Post selection and post regulariza- tion inference in linear models with many controls and instruments. American Economic Review, 105(5):486 490.), to estimate the causal impact of the treatments on GVA of firms. The results suggest that ATE of cluster and collaboration is nearly equal at 30%. I conclude by offering policy implications.

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Model-Selection Inference for Causal Impact of Clusters and Collaboration on MSMEs in India

Gupta

2023

J. Quant. Econ.

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“…International business is a long-term project that requires a large, integrated and developed network of infrastructures and services. Firms need significant resources to be able to access the knowledge of the foreign markets where they want to position themselves in an up-to-date manner [85]. Exports are the first step in this complex process.…”

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Exporting and Firms’ Performance—What about Cooperatives? Evidence from Spain

2020

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This paper examines how exporting cooperatives evolve and differ from those that are focused on the domestic market. We use a Spanish firm-level panel data set spanning 26 years (1991–2016). We work with a wide set of variables that reflect cooperatives’ performance: sales, gross operating margin, productivity, wages, employment, capital intensity, skilled-labour intensity and R&D effort. The analysis deals with two working hypotheses: (i) Exporting cooperatives perform better than non-exporters, (ii) exporting boosts performance growth. With regard to the first one, we provide evidence that exporting cooperatives outperform those that are focused on the domestic market. Cooperatives that export are more productive, larger and pay higher wages than non-exporters. In addition, they are more capital- and skilled-labour intensive. The second hypothesis does not find such conclusive results. Only employment and skilled-labour intensity of exporters show significant faster performance growth than non-exporters. Results can lend weak support to the fact that exporting boosts performance growth.

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“…Speciālās ekonomikas zonas (Special economic zone) (turpmāk SEZ) ir stratēģiskas "no augšas uz apakšu" jeb valdības iniciatīvas, kurās uzņēmumiem tiek piedāvātas nodokļu un citas atlaides, īpaši atvieglojumi, infrastruktūra (Aggarwal, 2006), savukārt klasteri ir organiski veidojumi "no apakšas uz augšu", kuros iniciatīva nākt no klastera dalībniekiem (Zeng, 2011;Murphy et.al., 2009), taču veidojoties labvēlīgai videi, arī speciālajās ekonomiskajās zonās var veidoties klasteri (Zeng, 2011;Bhatt, Puri, Appolloni, 2012). Autore secina, ka gan SEZ, gan klasteris ir uzņēmumu ģeogrāfiska koncentrācija, taču SEZ gadījumā uzsvars tiek likts uz valsts atbalstu uzņēmumiem, kas darbojas ekonomiski atpalikušajos reģionos, turklāt SEZ nav svarīgi, kādas nozares uzņēmumi darbojas vienkopus.…”

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Reģionālo klasteru izveides un attīstības iespējas Latvijā

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LLU) within the doctoral study programme Agrarian and Regional Economics, sub-branch of science-Regional Economics.The hypothesis of the doctoral dissertation: Regional clusters in Latvia are emerging in region-specific industries and are with high development potential.The overall aim of the doctoral dissertation: to identify regional clusters and to determine its potential in regions of Latvia.The following specific research tasks are set up to achieve the aim: 1) to examine theoretical, historical and documentary aspects of regional clusters, including regional clusters' effect on regional growth and development, 2) to determine and analyse preconditions for the establishment and growth of regional clusters in regions of Latvia, 3) to identify regional clusters in statistical regions in Latvia, approbating developed regional cluster identification methodology, 4) to elaborate potential of regional cluster establishment and development potential in the food manufacturing industry in Latvia. The doctoral dissertation is structured according to the hypothesis, aim and tasks and consists of four chapters.Chapter 1 describes theoretical, historical and documentary aspects of regional clusters and develops a framework for regional cluster and regions' economy interactions. It is found that cluster establishment has a positive effect on businesses, its survival rate and growth that lead to regional growth and development.Chapter 2 examines the preconditions for the establishment and development of regional clusters, including aspects like historical development of entrepreneurship, business environment, social and economic differences of the regions. It is found that Riga is a cluster development centre with high social and economic activity rate, while in other regions cluster development is important to decrease the gap between social and economic differences. The industries forming the cluster's core are identified.Chapter 3 performs identification of the regional cluster potential. Initial identification is performed in cluster core industries using the adjusted cluster mapping methodology that identified regional specific clusters in which development is influenced by existing infrastructure, historical development of industries and the existence of large enterprise in the region. In-depth identification is performed using mapping methodology and indexes that allow identifying clusters in the food manufacturing industry in regions depending on the availably of natural resources.Chapter 4 examines regional cluster potential in the food manufacturing industry in Latvia. Theoretical cluster models are developed and fish production and processing cluster's stage of development and potential are determined. Potential cluster development scenarios show high potential to form cluster in the fish processing industry with the initiative of association.The main conclusions, problems, and solutions are presented at the end of the dissertation.The size of the dissertation is 174 pages, including 34 tables and 42 figures. In...

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SEZ Proliferation in India: Are the Objectives Being Realized?

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Model-Selection Inference for Causal Impact of Clusters and Collaboration on MSMEs in India

Model-Selection Inference for Causal Impact of Clusters and Collaboration on MSMEs in India

Exporting and Firms’ Performance—What about Cooperatives? Evidence from Spain

Reģionālo klasteru izveides un attīstības iespējas Latvijā

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