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Title: Are clusters resilient? Evidence from Canadian textile industries

Author(s): Kristian Behrens, Brahim Boualam and Julien Martin

Publication Date: July 2017

Keyword(s): geo-coded data, Geographic clusters, Multifibre Arrangement, resilience and textile and clothing industries

Programme Area(s): International Trade and Regional Economics

Abstract: We investigate whether plants inside and outside geographic clusters differ in their resilience to adverse economic shocks. To this end, we develop a bottom-up procedure to delimit clusters using Canadian geo-coded plant-level data. Focussing on the textile and clothing industries and exploiting the series of dramatic changes faced by that sector between 2001 and 2013, we find no evidence that plants in clusters are more resilient than plants outside clusters: they are neither less likely to die nor more likely to adapt by switching their main line of business. However, conditional on switching, plants in urbanized clusters are more likely to transition to services.

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Behrens, K, Boualam, B and Martin, J. 2017. 'Are clusters resilient? Evidence from Canadian textile industries'. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=12184