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REVIEW OF INDUSTRIAL ORGANIZATION
Volume 16, Issue 1, Pages 53-68Publisher
KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007783900387
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export performance; industrial district; technological innovation
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Economies of scale in the provision of export services and informal face-to-face exchanges of information about export markets may improve export performance of small firms located in Marshallian districts (locales). This paper presents an empirical test of this hypothesis and finds that geographical agglomeration of small-medium firms in a delimited area significantly affects their export intensity and their probability of becoming exporters. The significance of geographical agglomeration persists in spite of all controls which show how the dependent variable is also (positively) affected by export subsidies, formal export cooperation among firms, cooperation in (and quality of) innovation, size and age.
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