competition has an important and non-monotonic effect on the growth of sales and of labour productivity: some degree of perceived … general business environment and a range of measures of the intensity of competition as perceived by a firm. We find that … market power is associated with higher sales growth, but competitive pressure is also important. Similar competition effects …

This paper examines the importance of competition in the growth and development of firms. We make use of the large …-scale natural experiment of the shift from an economic system without competition to a market economy to shed light on the factors … that influence innovation by firms and their subsequent growth. Using a dataset from a survey of nearly 4,000 firms in 24 …

. This paper examines the effects of competition and ownership on the efficiency of the newly privatized enterprises, using a … representative sample of enterprises and controlling for possible selection biases. Competition has quantitatively large effects …

Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …

competition because of the conflict-induced reduction in the number of competitors …

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 …