, calibrate it to the year 2000 using the World Input-Output Database, and perform a counterfactual analysis of China’s WTO … accession. We find that China's WTO entry accounts for about 45% of the decrease in China's value added exports to exports ratio … results imply that China's WTO accession was the driving force behind the strengthening of production networks with its …

interlinked with regional European and Asian clusters, which, in turn, are centered around regional hub countries like China and …

If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better … effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the Cluster Initiativeʺ introduced in 1999 by the …-wide knowledge flows. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find that introducing the Bavarian-wide cluster policy increased …

, we analyze the firms' trade margins during the COVID-19 crisis to evaluate whether belonging to an exporting cluster can …