: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

A classic question in industrial organization is whether competition raises productivity and if so, through what … tougher competition does indeed raise productivity and one of the main mechanisms is through improving management practices … the economics of competition and management, arguing that management should be seen at least in part as a transferable …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …