market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …

competition are all found to be important determinants of long-run firm values, firm turnover, and market structure. Estimates for …

competition among firms leads to an increase in the variety of developed projects and a decrease in the amount of duplication of …

between firm behavior and competition is estimated with price cost margin (price minus marginal costs over price) as indicator … of competition and profitability. The model is extended to assess the impact of imports on competition using import … and reduction of tariffs affect competition in the cement industry? Are imports effective in disciplining domestic firms …

standard markup pricing model, reductions in market competition, along with increased nominal exchange rate volatility, are …

of pricing behavior. The effect of market structure on persistence of inflation results from two conflicting forces …. Increased competition may reduce persistence by increasing the frequency of price changes. In contrast, higher competition may … non-tradable sectors, suggesting that higher competition is not conducive to lower persistence. Furthermore, we find that …

During the last two decades, the world has experienced a remarkable process of disinflation, with average inflation … rates in industrialized countries falling by 10 percentage points and an even sharper decline of the mean rate of inflation … in developing countries. Parallel to the decline in inflation rates, a tremendous increase in economic integration …

. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

This paper examines the total factor productivity performance (TFP) of the Philippines in the 1990s in order to provide … a picture of the extent of the productivity concern that needs to be addressed in the Medium-Term National Action Agenda … for Productivity, 2000-2004. The findings show that while the average TFP growth of the country has improved in the 1990s …

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …