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The Effects of Local Market Concentration and International Competition on Firm Productivity : Evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos - 2020
Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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Does Pollution Hinder Urban Competitiveness?
Kahn, Matthew Edwin - 2019
This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those cities that specialize in heavy industrial activity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892687
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Banking Sector Competition in Russia
Anzoategui, Diego - 2017
competition in Russia during 2002-2008. The authors examine indicators of concentration and contestability, and compute non …-structural measures of competition. They compare competition in Russia to that in Brazil, China, and India, and contrast competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976334
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Competition and Innovation-Driven Inclusive Growth
Dutz, Mark A. - 2017
The paper investigates the strength of innovation-driven employment growth, the role of competition in stimulating and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975685
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Krueger/Schiff/Valdes Revisited : Agricultural Price and Trade Policy Reform in Developing Countries Since 1960
Anderson, Kym - 2017
A study of distortions to agricultural incentives in 18 developing countries during 1960-84, by Krueger, Schiff and Valdes (1988; 1991), found that policies in most of those developing countries were directly or indirectly harming their farmers. Since the mid-1980s there has been a substantial...
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Does Democratization Promote Competition? : Indonesian Manufacturing Pre and Post Suharto
Hallward-Driemeier, Mary - 2020
Does democratization promote economic competition? This paper documents that the disruption of political connections … measures of competition in the post-Suharto era relative to industries in which Suharto firms had not been important players …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843450
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Competition Makes it Better : Evidence on When Firms Use it More Effectively
Iacovone, Leo - 2018
of increasing competition from China, this effect is different for firms more strongly affected by competition where … IT and other changes spurred by competition, taking advantage of the exogenous shock generated by Chinese competition …. The results indicate that IT use has higher effects over productivity in the case of firms facing higher competition from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936253
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Russian Federation : How Services Contribute to Competitiveness
Saez, Sebastian - 2017
Globalization is creating many new trade and growth opportunities, with services trade increasingly becoming an issue for export-oriented economies. Services are important to country trade strategies, because they represent activities in which countries may have a comparative advantage, and they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967901
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Export Competitiveness and FDI Performance Across the Regions of the Russian Federation
Dairabayeva, Karlygash - 2017
The Russian Federation's regions not only have highly uneven degrees of development, they also have very uneven degrees of foreign orientation. Regions with the highest foreign orientation--exports of goods per capita or inbound foreign direct investment per capita?almost across the board have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967907
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Services and Innovation for the Competitiveness of the Ecuadorian Economy
Rubalcaba Bermejo, Luis - 2017
, innovation is the key quality and differentiation factor (as distinguished from price-related, regulatory, and competition … direct investment; and quality, regulatory, and competition issues affecting the investment climate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968640