Empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization increases firm productivity. This paper offers a novel … outsourcing as firms focus on their core competencies in response to tougher competition. Since firms are the better at performing … tasks the closer they are to their core competencies, this outsourcing increases firm productivity. Moreover, I also …

This paper uses new product-specific, micro-level US data to show that New England had lower levels of productivity in …-abundant country – has higher labour productivity contradicts the Rothbarth-Habakkuk model. We suggest Britain’s industrial success … stems from more intensive competition, manifested through external economies of scale and longer production runs. We finish …

-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 …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

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 …

Do “Anglo-Saxon” management practices generate higher productivity only at the expense of lousy work-life balance (WLB …) for workers? Many critics of “neo-libéralisme sauvage” have argued that increased competition from globalisation is … tool that companies can use to raise productivity. We try to shed some empirical light on these issues using an innovative …

This paper uses a difference-in-difference style estimation strategy to test separately the impact of competition from … efficiency. Our results suggest that competition between public providers prompted public hospitals to improve their productivity … reforms forced public sector health care providers to compete with other public hospitals and eventually to face competition …