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In many industries, competition is far from perfect and managerial efficiency (or a fixed cost) varies among firms. However, traditional measurement of technological progress assumes perfect competition and no fixed cost. This paper incorporates these two factors in the technological-progress...
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Policy efforts to revitalise entrepreneurship and investment in Spain are key to generating growth and new jobs. The government has a substantial reform program to make it easier to do business in Spain, which should in some cases be deepened. Boosting economic growth requires a new generation...
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The correlation between a firm’s size and its productivity level varies considerably across OECD countries, suggesting … that some countries are more successful at channelling resources to high productivity firms than others. Accordingly, we … examine the extent to which regulations affecting product, labour and credit markets influence productivity, via their effect …
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generate substantial productivity improvements across EU member economies. Over a period of 10 years, the predicted increase in … labour productivity resulting from a bold reform package is around 10% for the average EU country, and new member States …
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, productivity, and profitability, as well as the concentration of production across firms, industries and regions. It does this by … quarter in 1998, and operates much more efficiently than the public sector. Higher productivity has fed through to …
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This paper relates diverging productivity performances across OECD countries over the past fifteen years to differences … of the key channels through which inappropriate service regulations affect productivity growth is by hindering the … that anti-competitive service regulations hamper productivity growth in ICT-using sectors, with a particularly pronounced …
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important means for lowering prices and boosting productivity and innovation. This paper reviews the main areas for reform …
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India’s growth performance has improved significantly over the past 20 years, but has been uneven across industries and states. While some service industries, notably in the information and communications technology sector, have become highly competitive in world markets – yielding...
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This paper examines the potential role of innovation policy in enhancing long-term productivity growth in Russia. It …
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From the mid-1980s, New Zealand was widely considered to be a leader in liberalising product market regulation (PMR). However, the reform of PMR has lost momentum over recent years. Many areas of PMR are still consistent with best practice, but New Zealand is no longer assessed to be at the...
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