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Online Search Engine Competition with First-Mover Advantages, Potential Competition and a Competitive Fringe : Implications for Data Access Regulation and Antitrust

Casanova, Jordi - 2020

Are dominant online search engines monopolies enjoying low contest-ability, due to high barriers to entry, or innovative first-movers? This paper argues that dominant online search engines maintain their leadership through an “innovation feedback loop”: a process whereby increasing R&D...

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Convergence of Firm-Level Productivity, Globalisation, Information Technology, and Competition : Evidence from France

Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Remy; Oulton, Nicholas - 2010

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

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The impact of regulations and institutions on competitiveness and productivity : the case of Greece

Nicolitsas, Daphne - In: European journal of comparative economics 18 (2021) 1, pp. 23-47

economy to a low productivity level. These structural characteristics are related not only to cost elements but also to the …

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Fight or flight? : how do firms adapt their product mix in response to demand and competition

Macedoni, Luca; Zhang, Rui; Warzynski, Frederic - 2024

We propose a new model of multi-product firms in international trade, where firms choose their product mix based on the products’ attractiveness and endogenous competition. The model is motivated by two novel stylized facts using Danish manufacturing data, which demonstrate the importance of...

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Uncovering heterogeneity in the relationship between competition, corporate governance and firm performance using quantile regression on Indian data

Chakraborty, Indrani - In: Asia and the global economy : AGE 3 (2023) 2, pp. 1-19

This paper investigates the relation between product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance in Indian manufacturing industries covering the period 1995-2017. Evidence suggests that firm performance improves as competition increases. Besides, results depict heterogeneity in...

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Reaching up and reaching out : the impact of competition on firms' productivity and export decisions

Hynes, Kate; Opoku, Eric Evans Osei; Yan, Isabel K. M. - 2017

This paper investigates the effect of competition in both the domestic and foreign markets on firm productivity and …

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Robotizing to compete? : firm-level evidence

Bastos, Paulo; Flach, Lisandra; Keller, Klaus - 2023

We investigate the impact of product market competition on firms’ automation investments. We use a rich combination of micro-data on Portuguese exporters and exploit a novel source of variation in the degree of competition they face – a tariff liberalization between the European Union and...

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Competition, Firm Turnover and Productivity Growth

Baldwin, John R.; Gu, Wulong - 2009

This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of firm turnover as output is shifted … continuing firms. This paper proposes a method for measuring the impact of firm turnover on productivity growth and shows that … associated with competition is the main source of aggregate labour productivity growth in Canadian manufacturing industries …

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Why does productivity matter?

Cuong Le Van; Pham, Ngoc-Sang - In: International Trade, Economic Development, and the …, (pp. 173-185). 2022

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Competition, Firm Innovation, and Growth under Imperfect Technology Spillovers

Jo, Karam; Kim, Seula - 2021

This paper studies the effect of competition on firm innovation by developing a discrete-time endogenous growth model where multi-product firms do two types of innovation subject to friction in technology spillovers. Firms improve their existing products through internal innovation while...

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