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 …

autarkies" to a nationally integrated market. I demonstrate that the results of increased competition were" what industrial …

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

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 …

through learning by doing. These models imply that increased specialization accelerates productivity growth by more fully … realizing dynamic economies of scale. In order to test the hypothesis that specialization increases productivity growth in LDCs … countries, the index of specialization is positively and significantly correlated with manufacturing productivity growth. We …

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity … through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted …

estimated with greater precision. The most empirically successful models include productivity measures, government spend- ing …