-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …

period, which invite us to revisit the issue. This paper argues that sectoral state aids tend to foster productivity …, productivity growth, and product innovation to a larger extent when it targets more competitive sectors and when it is not …

This Paper investigates whether there is convergence in Total Factor Productivity towards the technological frontier at … technological frontier, and therefore make a contribution to productivity growth through technology transfer. We also find evidence …

This paper examines the role of competition in productivity perfromance in Britain over the period from the late … 1930s to the 1970s undermined productivity growth but since the 1970s stronger competition has been a key ingredient in … ending relative economic decline. The productivity implications of the retreat from competition resulted in large part from …

We measure the impact of a drastic new technology for producing steel, the minimill, on the aggregate productivity of U …'s productivity is linked to this new technology, and operates through two distinct mechanisms. First, minimills displaced the older … in the industry's productivity. Second, increased competition, due to the expansion of minimills, drove a substantial …

We investigate theoretically and empirically the competitive effects of increased trade on prices, productivity and … productivity. In response to an increase in openness, markups show a steep short run decline, which partly reverses later, while … productivity rises in a manner that increases over time. Our estimates suggest that EU manufacturing prices fell by 2 …