In this paper we explore the extent to which firms experience productivity spillovers from clustering using a rich data …

The potential benefits of the geographical clustering of economic activity have been well documented in the literature …

We present a new approach for the empirical investigation of agglomeration patterns. We examine the clustering of …-level panel data from Vietnam we calculate transitivity, a measure to determine the strength of clustering of manufacturing firms …. We then test whether the observed clustering of firms is greater than that of a randomly generated network. Our findings …