for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product … governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show … significantly higher productivity growth. Financial pressure from creditors influences productivity growth positively, particularly …

standard markup pricing model, reductions in market competition, along with increased nominal exchange rate volatility, are …

We adopt a spatial econometric approach to estimate intra- and inter-industry productivity spillovers in total factor … productivity transmitted through input-output relations in a sample of 13 OECD countries and 15 manufacturing industries. Both R …

The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …

Services form an increasing proportion of the inputs used in manufacturing. We explore empirically whether competition …-data for services, we calculate proxies for competition in services, and then use Input-Output matrices to link services to … manufacturing sectors. we find that there is a positive and significant relation between the extent of competition and firms …