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Michael Gechter
Michael Gechter is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Economics at The Pennsylvania State University. His research focusses on methodological issues in development economics. One strand of his work involves making externally valid causal effect predictions. The second concerns the effect of interactions between regulations, informality, and state capacity on allocative efficiency.
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Environmental relocation and firm outcomes
Industrial relocation policies have become increasingly popular as a policy tool to combat pollution in the developing world. Using Economic Census data from 2005 and 2013, this article examines the impact of an industrial relocation policy in Delhi, and shows that relocation caused a long-term change in the location and concentration of firms. The data also indicate distributional consequences – with firms that were relocated across larger distances being less likely to remain open in the long run
