Dhyne, Emmanuel; Petrin, Amil; Smeets, Valerie; … - 2024
We study how increased import competition affects the evolution of productivity in a small open economy. We use a … gains from competition over the sample period exceeding 1.2 billion euros, which is over 2.5% of the average annual value of … also find that firms respond to competition by focusing more on their core products. Instrumenting import share with changes …