We study the strategic positioning of Austrian manufacturing firms that face competition from emerging markets as … more pronounced when firms face competitors from emerging markets. Emerging market competition is associated with a broader …

to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS …) in Eastern Europe and Central Asia. The findings confirm an inverted-U shaped impact of competition on R&D. Both … competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per …

The import competition literature suggests that Chinese industrial policies and technological trends have altered the … nature of competition with China so that it does not take place on a level playing field anymore. Empirical evidence about … firms' reactions in developed economies to competition with China is inconclusive, however. This paper studies how small …

We estimate the pro-competitive effects of Austria's participation in the Single Market after its EU accession in 1995 …