From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival
Identifying the impact of local firm concentration on individual firm performance is likely to produce a selection bias related to the positive effects of local concentration if agglomeration economies and natural advantages coincide. We overcome this problem by exploiting exogenous variation arising from a natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, a great many firms fled the socialist East to prevent expropriation and located in random West German regions. Based on micro-level data for the population of firms in the machine tool industry from 1949 -2002, we identify the impact of relocated firms on incumbent firms’ survival. We find a negative effect on incumbent survival, suggesting that the costs of increased competition dominate the potential benefits of agglomeration.
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2010
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Authors: | Heblich, Stephan ; Falck, Oliver ; Günther, Christina ; Kerr, William R. |
Institutions: | Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München |
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