It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … growth in total factor productivity. -- entry ; productivity ; institutions ; regulations ; India ; reforms …

model. Nevertheless, our model yields several new results that are in line with data. First, the average productivity of … firms located in a market increases in the size of the market. Second, the productivity of exporters is U-shaped with … reference to export market size. Third, the productivity premium (the difference in average productivity) between exporters and …

establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … productivity of roughly 1.3 percent. This decrease in productivity is not innocuous: it is responsible for about one half of the …