Les pôles de compétitivité wallonsQuel impact sur les performances économiques des entreprises ?The Walloon competitiveness clusters and their impact on firms’ economic performances?
(2015) , 25 pages
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- (en) This paper analyzes the impact of the Walloon competitiveness clusters policy on the economic performances of firms. We study more particularly the impact on productivity, employment and exports. We use firm-level panel data for all firms in Wallonia and the Brussels-Capital Region, for the period 2003-2011. We use double and triple differences and matching techniques to address selection and simultaneity issues. Results suggest that the policy selected firms that were initially more productive and larger in terms of employment. It seems however that the policy had no effect on productivity, nor on the value of exports. However, their entry into clusters seems to coincide with a slight increase in the number of employees, as well as with an increase in the number of exported products.
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Dujardin, C., Louis, V., & Mayneris, F. (2015). Les pôles de compétitivité wallonsQuel impact sur les performances économiques des entreprises ?The Walloon competitiveness clusters and their impact on firms’ economic performances? (IRES Discussion Papers 2015017). https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/190124