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This paper formulates a model of the optimal export decision of private firms and then empirically studies the effect of firm size, R&D activities, competitiveness and trade policies on export performance of Indian private firms during the period 1975–1986. India practised restrictive trade...
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The geographic concentration of firms has been successful recently in many ways: international competitiveness of these firms, regional income's growth, etc. The Italian industrial districts are the case with major relevance at the international iterature. At the ABC paulista there are a...
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The geographic concentration of firms has been successful recently in many ways: international competitiveness of these firms, regional income's growth, etc. The Italian industrial districts are the case with major relevance at the international literature. At Joinville there are a significant...
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in various sectors of the Danish economy. It looks at a number of indicators of the strength of competition — including … competition legislation framework. The paper then focuses on the large public sector, which has been slow to open up to … competition, partly because of regulatory restrictions but also because some local governments are too small to handle tenders and …
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policy approaches to product market competition and their consequences for product market rents. Against this background, the … paper summarises OECD recommendations to further strengthen competition in various sectors and areas. These include … easing residency or nationality requirements (professional services); meet competition challenges in network industries by …
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Vigorous product market competition plays a central role in bolstering productivity growth. Sweden has strengthened … competition legislation and deregulated a number of sectors, including electricity, telecommunications and parts of transport …, over the past 10 to 15 years. This paper examines the current state of product market competition and proposes further …
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The strength of product market competition plays an important role in ensuring dynamic economic growth. This paper … examines product market competition and its link with economic performance in Switzerland whose growth has been weaker than in … reforms should focus on the legal framework of competition, the network industries, the health sector, the revision of the …
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This paper analyses the effects of product market reforms in the short and medium term across 10 regulated industries and 18 advanced economies for the period 1998-2013 using internationally comparable firm-level data based on Orbis. It provides four key insights. First, product market reforms...
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consistently enable incumbent firms shielded from competition to raise their prices, while a lack of regulatory transparency and …
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This report presents evidence on how services trade restrictions influence the decisions and performance of firms engaged in international markets, drawing on micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It first describes the...
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