results, the industry experienced positive total factor productivity (TFP) growth during the observation period, which is … presence of increasing returns to scale led to efficiency gains of the firms. -- Insurance markets ; Total factor productivity …

productivity of European network firms. Exploiting the variation in the timing and degree of liberalization efforts across … countries and industries, we find that liberalization increased firm-level productivity but had no reallocation impact. Based on … our estimates, the average firm-level productivity gain from liberalization amounts to 38 percent of the average total …

How do restrictions on entry and output affect aggregate productivity? I propose and implement a simple methodology …