The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …

world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the … heterogeneity in the degree of globalization over time and across countries and regions of the World, as well as within countries …

recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in … detail how organizational capital has been measured and the measurement issues that face those trying to understand the …

competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms … face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity distribution of all potential opponents reduces competition failures by more than 50%, (2) information on the …This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory …

both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be …

Governments the world over offer significant inducements to attract inward investment, motivated by the expectation of … productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …