competition has an important and non-monotonic effect on the growth of sales and of labour productivity: some degree of perceived … general business environment and a range of measures of the intensity of competition as perceived by a firm. We find that … market power is associated with higher sales growth, but competitive pressure is also important. Similar competition effects …

This paper examines the importance of competition in the growth and development of firms. We make use of the large …-scale natural experiment of the shift from an economic system without competition to a market economy to shed light on the factors … that influence innovation by firms and their subsequent growth. Using a dataset from a survey of nearly 4,000 firms in 24 …

competition has an important and non-monotonic effect on the growth of sales and of labour productivity: some degree of perceived … general business environment and a range of measures of the intensity of competition as perceived by a firm. We find that …

. This paper examines the effects of competition and ownership on the efficiency of the newly privatized enterprises, using a … representative sample of enterprises and controlling for possible selection biases. Competition has quantitatively large effects …

Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …

competition because of the conflict-induced reduction in the number of competitors …

impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyze 1992-1998 panel …, intensity, time path, and survival effects of competitive pressures. We find large, positive effects on TFP from competition in …

comparison with the United States. It has been argued that lack of product market competition and poor corporate governance are … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in …Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in …

competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per … to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS …We investigate the drivers of firm level productivity in catching-up economies by jointly estimating its relationship …