This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the … impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in …-cost margin, enhances productivity growth, controlling for a broad range of industrial and firm-specific characteristics. Moreover …

This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the … impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in …-cost margin, enhances productivity growth, controlling for a broad range of industrial and firm-specific characteristics. Moreover …

Productivity growth is a key determinant of improvements in living standards in the long run. However, analysis of … productivity trends at the aggregate level does not capture the variation of firm and sub-industry productivity performance that … underlies industry or aggregate productivity. By examining the differences in productivity performance of firms in particular …