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We examine the extent to which regulations of entry and credit access are related to competition using data on 28 manufacturing sectors across 64 countries. A robust finding is that bureaucratic and costly entry regulations tend to hamper competition, as proxied by the price-cost margin, in the...
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I investigate changes in product scope, the number of products that a firm offers, over the business cycle and decompose the impact of such changes on aggregate output. By using the Nielsen Retail Scanner data of U.S. consumer goods purchases for 2007- 2014, I find that firm product scope is an...
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Many online businesses, including most of the largest platforms, seek and provide attention. These online attention rivals provide products and features to obtain the attention of consumers and sell some of that attention, through other products and services, to merchants, developers and others...
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Firms, especially Chinese manufacturing firms, invest significant resources in innovation activities to sustain their position in the intensifying competitive environment. However, innovation efficiency has led to growing concerns due to the rapid increase in R&D expenditures. The purpose of...
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This paper investigates the relation between product market competition, corporate governance and firm performance in Indian manufacturing industries covering the period 1995-2017. Evidence suggests that firm performance improves as competition increases. Besides, results depict heterogeneity in...
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This study was commissioned by the European Commission, Directorate General "Enterprise and Industry" and was completed at the end of 2005. The objective was to investigate the impact of the accession of new member states on the intra-European division of labour and on global competitiveness in...
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Vietnam has gone through massive economic restructuring from a socialist command economy to market-oriented economy … important step towards understanding the impact of economic reform on the economic performance of Vietnam as a result of the … economic transition. In this paper, the authors investigate the evolution of competition in Vietnam during the economic …
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impact of economic reform and competition on economic growth in Vietnam during the economic transition. In this paper, the … author investigates the evolution of competition in Vietnam during the economic transition using the price-cost margin (PCM … competition across selected industries in Vietnam in the last decade using firm-level data from the Vietnam Enterprise Census (VEC …
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impact of economic reform and competition on economic growth in Vietnam during the economic transition. In this paper, the … author investigates the evolution of competition in Vietnam during the economic transition using the price-cost margin (PCM … competition across selected industries in Vietnam in the last decade using firm-level data from the Vietnam Enterprise Census (VEC …
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