This study examines how deregulation affects product market competition and thereby productivity. Productivity grows … to renounce high rents and cut costs, which increases static efficiency. However, static efficiency boosts productivity … rivals, they ensure firms a quiet life. Deregulation has therefore great potential to boost productivity growth. This study …

cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative … productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manufacturing is competitive because …

We analyse the development of labour productivity and hours worked by the working-aged population in the EU25 countries …-market variables. First, we describe the trends in productivity and hours worked especially in the EU15 countries relative to the … of the 1960-2004 period to explain the developments. Taxes and gross replacement rates do not correlate with productivity …