题目：Industrial clusters in the long run: Evidence from Million-Rouble plants in China

主讲人：Marlon Seror, 魁北克大学蒙特利尔分校

时间：2023年3月6日9:00 – 10:30 （北京时间）

举办方式：线上讲座，扫描文末二维码即可报名

主讲人简介：

Marlon Seror is an assistant professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM). His research stands at the crossroads of Development Economics, Urban Economics, and Economic History. It relies extensively on original data and GIS techniques.

Abstract:

This paper identifies the negative spillovers exerted by large, successful factories on other local production units in China. A short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China led to the construction of 156 Million-Rouble plants in the 1950s. The identification exploits the ephemeral geopolitical context and exogenous variation in location decisions due to the relative position of allied and enemy airbases. We find a rise-and-fall pattern in counties hosting a factory and show that a double curse explains their long-run decline. The analysis of production linkages shows that a very large cluster of non-innovative establishments enjoys technological rents along the production chain of Million-Rouble plants. This industrial concentration reduces the local supply of entrepreneurs.