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This paper studies the macroeconomic effect and underlying firm-level transmission channels of a reduction in business entry costs. We provide novel evidence on the response of firms' entry, exit, and employment decisions. To do so, we use as a natural experiment a reform in Portugal that...
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Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have limited its analysis to developed countries or cross-country studies based on definitions of market concentration across nations and industries. This paper takes advantage of a...
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We study empirically how competition among high-frequency traders (HFTs) affects their trading behavior and market …-frequency competition, and contains an exogenous event - a tick size reform - which we use to disentangle the effects of the rising share of … high-frequency trading in the market from the effects of high-frequency competition. We find that when HFTs compete, their …
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This paper analyse productivity of manufacturing sector in India. As per Global Competitive Index, India is ranked 71. In spite of India's relative steady growth in last decade, productivity indices remained weak. We investigates factors around 12 pillars of GCI, and broadly internal & external...
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Through this present work the author attempts to draw manufacturers’ attention to the urgency of Defect mitigation, as a prelude to achieving organisational competency. No manufacturer must have the licence to create defects, for the scrap generation comes with attendant costs which are only...
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Does greater product market competition improve external competitiveness and growth? This paper examines this question … emerging market economies and developing countries, and finds that an improvement in domestic competition is associated with a … productivity growth. Price levels, including of essential items, are also generally lowered with an increase in competition …
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delay. However, only the top gatekeeper artificially delays matches to increase competition, a prediction that matches …
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concentrated markets. In this paper the Panzar-Rosse approach is used to assess competition of banking sectors in CEE. By using … competition-stability trade-off …
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but they fail to capture the dynamics of competition between coalitions. For the same level of concentration, competition … UK, which might indicate a lower degree of competition in the former. We also find that syndicates are significantly more …
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