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What is the Impact of Increased Business Competition?
Feliz, Sonia - 2020
This paper studies the macroeconomic effect and underlying firm-level transmission channels of a reduction in business entry costs. We provide novel evidence on the response of firms' entry, exit, and employment decisions. To do so, we use as a natural experiment a reform in Portugal that...
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Accounting for the Evolution of China's Production and Trade Patterns
Huang, Hanwei; Ju, Jiandong; Yue, Vivian Z. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the evolution of China's production and trade patterns during its integration into the global … economy. We document and explain new facts concerning changes in production and exports at the industry and firm levels using … that capital deepening made China's production and exports more capital-intensive, although labor-biased productivity …
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Productivity and Prices in Manufacturing During an Era of Rising Concentration
Peltzman, Sam - 2018
concern about weakened competition and resulting harm to consumers. Calls for tougher antitrust enforcement have become louder …
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Bank Competition and Financial (In)Stability in Europe : A Sensitivity Analysis
Samantas, Ioannis - 2013
stability channel of bank competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072563
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012836579
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The effects of local market concentration and international competition on firm productivity : evidence from Mexico
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; López-Calva, Luis F.; … - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012202018
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Competition and Firm Performance : Lessons from Russia
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2000
impact of several dimensions of market competition and other factors on enterprise efficiency. We analyze 1992-1998 panel …, intensity, time path, and survival effects of competitive pressures. We find large, positive effects on TFP from competition in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014160741
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Chapter 9. Newspapers and Magazines
Chandra, Ambarish; Kaiser, Ulrich - 2015
We review the Economics literature on newspapers and magazines. Our emphasis is on the newspaper industry, especially in the United States, given that this has been the focus of existing research. We first discuss the structure of print media markets, describing the rise in the number of daily...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025244
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Rentiership and Intellectual Monopoly in Contemporary Capitalism: Conceptual Challenges and Empirical Possibilities
Baines, Joseph; Hager, Sandy Brian - 2023
conceptual challenges in delineating what precisely qualifies as rent, intellectual or otherwise. In place of static conceptions … of rent and intellectual monopoly, we develop a dynamic framework for analyzing the processes of rentierization and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014282349
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Allocative efficiency and aggregate productivity growth in Canada and the United States
Shao, Lin; Tang, Rongsheng - 2021
This paper evaluates the contribution of allocative efficiency to the aggregate productivity growth in Canada and the US. In particular, we are interested in explaining two puzzling facts: 1) the slowdown in productivity growth during the 1970s and the 2000s in the US, and 2) the widening...
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