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competition across 1,800 municipalities and matches it with establishment census panel data to estimate the impact on … result of legal reforms that strengthened the mandate of Peru's competition authority. Legislative changes in 2013 …/14 empowered the competition authority to enforce the elimination of illegal, sector-specific subnational regulatory barriers to …
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. However, there has been little evidence on what drives market power and the impact of the degree of competition in South …-level determinants of the estimated markups and assesses the link between competition and firm-level outcomes, including productivity … South Africa, even after controlling for efficiency. Moreover, lower product market competition has a significant, negative …
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Using the management and operational practices survey in the Russian Federation, this paper finds that an average … Russian manufacturing firm adopts 43 percent of the structured management practices (a score of 0.43), a value that is far …, where a large share of firms adopt few structured management practices and only 3.5 percent of them have a score over 0 …
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This paper provides evidence that commercial lenders in Peru free ride off their peers' screening efforts. Leveraging a discontinuity in the loan approval process of a large bank, the study finds that competing lenders responded to additional loan approvals by issuing approvals of their own....
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Embedding management and operational practices survey in a broader firm capabilities survey, this paper finds that an … average firm in Croatia scores 0.532 on structured management practices, which is farther from the frontier (0.615 in the … United States). This average, however, masks the wide heterogeneity in management practices among firms. Relative to advanced …
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