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dc.titleCluster Initiatives and Economic Resilience: Evidence from a Technology Cluster in Argentina
dc.contributor.authorDíaz de Astarloa, Bernardo
dc.contributor.authorTacsir, Ezequiel
dc.contributor.orgunitCompetitiveness, Technology and Innovation Division
dc.coverageArgentina
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.coverageSouth America
dc.date.available2022-12-04T00:12:00
dc.date.issue2022-12-04T00:12:00
dc.description.abstractIn this paper, we study the role of a cluster initiative in fostering economic resilience among firms in a local technology cluster in Argentina. We focus on two aggregate shocks that hit the Argentine economy, including first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our analysis is based on interviews with authorities and members of the cluster initiative, local firms, and policy makers, as well as on firm-level administrative tax records. We find that the cluster organization provides members with resources that could foster resilience, including access to specialized human capital, information on business opportunities, and assistance in applying for government support programs. However, while members of the cluster organization appear to be more resilient than non-members, even within the same regional cluster, after conditioning on firm characteristics we find little evidence of a positive association between belonging to the cluster organization and economic resilience. Members of the cluster organization are neither less likely to exit nor adapt by switching their main economic activity and did not show statistically significantly higher revenue growth than nonmembers. Member firms do appear to have been more able than non-members to keep up with tax obligations during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0004594
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/Cluster-Initiatives-and-Economic-Resilience-Evidence-from-a-Technology-Cluster-in-Argentina.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectSmall Business
dc.subjectExtractive Cluster
dc.subjectCluster Development
dc.subjectTechnological Change
dc.subjectInformation and Communication Technology
dc.subjectScience and Technology
dc.subjectResilience
dc.subjectPandemics
dc.subjectEconomic Stabilization
dc.subjectIndustry
dc.subjectTaxation
dc.subject.jelcodeR12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
dc.subject.jelcodeD22 - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
dc.subject.jelcodeD02 - Institutions: Design, Formation, Operations, and Impact
dc.subject.keywordsCluster initiatives;Resilience;technology clusters;information technologyindustries;COVID-19 crisis
dc.typeWorking Papers
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-WP-01382
idb.operationRG-E1714
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