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Industrial clusters,organized crime,and productivity growth in Italian SMEs
Authors:Roberto Ganau  Andrés Rodríguez‐Pose
Affiliation:1. Department of Economics and Management “Marco Fanno”, University of Padova, Padova, Italy;2. Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, United Kingdom
Abstract:We examine whether organized crime affects firms’ performance (defined using Total Factor Productivity growth) both directly and indirectly, by downsizing the positive externalities arising from the geographic concentration of (intra‐ and inter‐industry) market‐related firms. The analysis uses a large sample of Italian small‐ and medium‐sized manufacturing firms over the period 2010–2013. The results highlight the negative direct effects of organized crime on firms’ productivity growth. Any positive effect derived from industrial clustering is thoroughly debilitated by a strong presence of organized crime, and the negative moderation effect of organized crime on productivity growth is greater for smaller than for larger firms.
Keywords:externalities  industrial clustering  Italy  organized crime  total factor productivity
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