public policy objectives, including value-creation, innovation, and competition. A number of novel data-collection methods …, including value-creation, as measured by the likelihood and size of IPOs and M&As, and innovation, as measured by patents. It is …

productivity and TFP, reduces bank and government subsidies, alleviates leverage and administrative expenses, improves liquidity …

. Competition, governance, human capital and informational frictions help account for the variation in management …

The correlation between productivity and competition is an oft-observed but ill-understood result. Some suggest that … there is a treatment effect of competition on measured productivity, e.g. through a reduction of managerial slack. Others … argue that greater competition makes unproductive establishments exit by reallocating demand to their productive rivals …

in public entities. Overall, our findings point to the limits of transparency reforms that aim to increase competition in …

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 …

practices may be impeding the development of Central Asian transition countries. We find that competition, multinational … continued opening of markets to domestic and foreign competition, privatisation of state-owned firms and increased levels of …

knowledge acquisition (A), implementing written knowledge management rules (W). The French 1998-2000 Community Innovation Survey … to firm innovative performance and to its productivity. The impacts of adoption of the four surveyed KM practices on firm … innovative and productivity performance are not completely accounted by firm size, industry, research & development (R&D) efforts …