Competition and Firm Productivity

Competition and Firm Productivity
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Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Total Pages : 36
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ISBN-10 : 9781451982114
ISBN-13 : 1451982119
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Book Synopsis Competition and Firm Productivity by : Sandra Ospina

Download or read book Competition and Firm Productivity written by Sandra Ospina and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of competition on firm productivity. Using firm-level observations from the World Bank Enterprise Survey database, we find a positive and robust causal relationship between our proxies for competition and our measures of productivity. We also find that countries that implemented product-market reforms had a more pronounced increase in competition, and correspondingly, in productivity: the contribution to productivity growth due to competition spurred by product-market reforms is around 12-15 percent.


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