The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …

era to permit free competition and effective governance by new owners. …

This paper studies the effect of changes in foreign competition on the incentives faced by U.S. managers in the form of … wage structures, promotion profiles, and job turnover. We use a panel of executives and measure foreign competition as … globalization on the labor market outcomes of these workers. We find that higher foreign competition leads to more incentive …

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed … Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with competition. In particular, a one standard deviation increase in … competition in an economic sector decreases the probability that a fixed-term worker gets an open-ended contract within that …

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 …