This paper examines whether and how the entry of foreign multinational firms affects productivity growth of domestically owned firms, using Japanese firm-level data for the period 2000-2007. Although there are a considerable number of studies conducting productivity analyses on foreign...

There has been few studies on competition and entry of firms in local service industries. I apply Bresnahan and Reiss (1991)'s entry threshold model to study competition in the U.S. bar industry, by linking market size and the number of bars in each local market. I find that entry of each...