California Dreamin’: The Feeble Case for Cluster Policies
Review of Economic AnalysisPublished 1 May 2011Open access
Gilles Duranton
Citations208
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This study examines the case for cluster policy. This case is theoretically ambiguous and empirically very weak.
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