policies that emerge from their competition for students. The calibrated version of the model matches well the aggregate …

competitive barriers increase productivity to Western levels …

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over … to the productivity frontier …

, distortions in the supply of non-traded inputs, and perverse incentives for informality creates a drag on productivity growth …

competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. Our data set is large, containing information on …The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition …

understand the determinants of changes in plant productivity in 2000-2003. During this period there was a 35 percent increase in … that specific knowledge-enhancing investments can have very high returns, and that the threat of competition provides …

A positive correlation between productivity and export market participation has been well documented in producer micro … investment activities, particularly investments in R&D or new technology, that both raise productivity and increase the payoff to … set of interactions between R&D, exporting, and productivity. The self- selection of high productivity plants is the …

impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in …This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the … Japanese manufacturing for the years 1994-2000, I show that competition, as measured by lower level of industrial price …