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changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …
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The paper presents competitiveness and efficiency of the Polish fruit farms against similar farms from selected …-2009 and 2011-2013. Competitiveness of the researched fruit farms was determined by competitiveness index calculated as a ratio …
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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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The economic costs of environmental regulations have been widely debated since the U.S. began to restrict pollution emissions more than four decades ago. Using detailed production data from nearly 1.2 million plant observations drawn from the 1972-1993 Annual Survey of Manufactures, we estimate...
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The main objective of the competition policy and law is to preserve and promote competition, as a means to ensure … adequate supplies to consumers. As a general proposition, competition law consists of rules that are aimed at protecting the … process of competition in order to maximize consumer welfare. The aim of the Competition policy is to enhance the economic …
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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 … signficant increase in real GDP per capita growth rate, achieved mainly through an improvement in export competitiveness and …
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competition law remedies is likely to increase the success of achieving increased competitiveness of the industry and efficient … equal level playing field for the emergence of competition and competition policy, which is vigilant about any attempts to … prevent, restrict or distort competition. The main problem with the practical implementation of both policies lies on the …
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In this paper we use a unique dataset of Italian manufacturing firms that includes firm-level price data to investigate whether increased penetration of Chinese products affects the competitive environment in an advanced country like Italy. Instrumenting import penetration from China to account...
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. The Centre for Competition, Regulation, and Economic Development (CCRED) at the University of Johannesburg undertook a …, this paper analyses responses on economic performance, competitiveness and the challenges faced submitted by over 300 firms …; exporting patterns; investments and level of skills were assessed as an indication of economic performance and competitiveness …
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export: a model of “shipping the good apples” with strategic competition. In this model an increase in the per-unit charge …
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