The effect of market competition on firm innovation remains controversial, especially in the context of developing … countries. This paper presents new empirical evidence about the causal impact of competition on firm innovation for Chilean and … Colombian manufacturing firms. Using instrumental-variable estimation, our results show that market competition increases firm …

This paper studies the links between competition in the lending market and spreads of bank loans in Brazil. Evidence …

This paper analyses the role of the intensity of output market competition, firm's technology and of the incidence of … international character of product market competition reduces the relevance of firms' price reactions to cost shocks, whereas firms …' exposure to domestic competition seems to have an opposite effect. The presence of collective wage agreements at national level …

This study empirically investigates if competition’s impact on firm performance depends on the ownership structure. Our … results show that an increase in import competition has a positive effect on firms with concentrated ownership and a negative … effect on firms with dispersed ownership, regardless of the level of domestic competition. Given that the optimal level of …