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 …

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 …

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 …

in the industry's productivity. Second, increased competition, due to the expansion of minimills, drove a substantial …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 …

-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … competition is weak and/or when (b) family-owned firms pass management control down to the eldest sons (primo geniture). European … firms report lower levels of competition, while French and British firms also report substantially higher levels of primo …

the intensity of product market competition. In a further step, we use Belgian firm level micro-data to provide some …

This Paper shows that increasing product market competition can have a direct impact on the employment relationship and … on wage inequality. I develop a simple model in which an increase in product market competition increases returns to … skill through the effect of competition on the sensitivity of profits to cost reductions. I then show empirically that the …

This Paper studies the effect of product market competition on the compensation packages that firms offer to their … executives and in particular its impact on the sensitivity of pay to performance. To measure the effect of competition we use two … financial sectors as quasi-natural experiments. We provide difference in differences estimates of the effect of competition on …

This Paper analyses the interaction between internal capital market allocations and product market competition. It is …. Diversification is the optimal response to an anticipated toughening of competition, whereas divestiture may encourage competitors to …