Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … the effects of local industry concentration on productivity. The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the … factor productivity of revenue. Local industry concentration also has heterogeneous effects on productivity across industries …

products’ attractiveness and endogenous competition. The model is motivated by two novel stylized facts using Danish … feature the toughest competition. Depending on the strength of competition, two sorting patterns are possible: one in which … quantifying our model, we find that product-specific differences in attractiveness and competition explain a quarter of the …

especially detrimental to advanced economies for low unit value varieties, while the EU has better resisted competition in high … within - rather than between - products, we ask whether the fears raised by North-South competition are exaggerated …

competition, through either a larger number of imported goods or a faster international rate of productivity growth, leads to …We study the effects of import competition on industry locations patterns in a small open economy with two regions …. Domestic productivity growth converges to the international rate through firm-level investment in process innovation. With …