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A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Economies on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - In: Contributions in Economic Analysis & Policy 3 (2004) 1, pp. 1-43

This paper examines the importance of competition in innovation and the growth of firms. We make use of the large-scale natural experiment of the shift from an economic system without competition to a market economy to shed light on the factors that influence innovation by firms and their...

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Where are the real bottlenecks? : A Lagrangian approach to identifying constraints on growth from subjective survey data

Carlin, Wendy (contributor); Schaffer, Mark E. (contributor) - 2006

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Where are the real bottlenecks? A lagrangian approach to identifying constraints on growth from subjective survey data

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark E.; Seabright, Paul - 2006

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003353196

Where are the real bottlenecks? : Evidence from 20,000 firms in 60 countries about the shadow costs of constraints to firm performance

Carlin, Wendy (contributor); Schaffer, Mark E. (contributor) - 2007

We use data from over 20,000 firms in 60 countries to identify constraints on the growth of firms. We interpret managers' answers to survey questions on the extent to which various aspects of their external environment inhibit the performance of their firm as measuring the shadow cost of...