Falck, Oliver; Heblich, Stephan; Kipar, Stefan - Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
If one cluster increases local competitiveness, can politicians, by interlinking clusters, achieve an even better … effect at the state level? To answer this question, the paper analyzes the "Cluster Initiative" introduced in 1999 by the …-wide knowledge flows. Using a difference- in-differences approach, we find that introducing the Bavarian-wide cluster policy …