Brouwer, Erik; van der Wiel, H.P. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between competition, innovation and productivity for the Netherlands. We use … industry level. We find strong evidence for a positive impact of competition on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the industry … level. Competition directly increases TFP by reducing X-ineficiencies and removing inefficient forms from markets, but also …