Market reforms can improve a country’s aggregate productivity growth by reallocating resources from the less to more … results show that market reforms in China’s iron and steel industry strengthen competition at the national level but do not … accounted for 14% of industry-level productivity growth. The results shed light on the importance of removing regional monopoly …

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …