Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to … interest in maximising productivity. Ours is the first study to measure service industry productivity using both price and … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … the effects of local industry concentration on productivity. The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the … factor productivity of revenue. Local industry concentration also has heterogeneous effects on productivity across industries …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro … confirmed in an empirical study of the German clothing industry. -- International trade ; firm heterogeneity ; productivity …

improvement in productivity. Both econometric and non-parametric approaches are applied based on a 6-year balanced panel data of … international trade volume and trade structure towards high-tech exports result in positive effects on China's regional productivity …

induced by changes in wind across years, I show that higher levels of pollution lead to decreased agricultural productivity …, with large changes in productivity being common. The negative effects of pollution are larger in areas growing more labor …-intensive crops, indicating that the pollution works at least partly through direct effects on labor productivity. Finally, combining …

; productivity ; financial constraint ; export ; technology frontier ; BEEPS …

impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and … directions and key questions for future studies. -- business training ; consulting ; randomized experiments ; firm productivity …

states. -- Brain drain ; technology diffusion ; trade ; productivity growth …