market economies. The primary focus of the study is on competition and market structure, finance and the structure of lending … interpretation of the evidence on competition is that there is an initial move by firms into niches to exploit local market power …

economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the … North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants. …

extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity … and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … distribution of exports are positively correlated with changes in total factor productivity. Our results suggest that plants face …

establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … in productivity is not innocuous: it leads to a doubling of the welfare cost of inflation. …We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of …

Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …

imperfect competition (IC) have either assumed or imposed the market and productive structures necessary for such a model … investigate evidence of IRS at the industry level. Using an econometric approach based on the estimation of the translog cost …. The model accounting for technology did not fit the data well for most sectors. The estimation results without time trend …