over marginal theory of imperfect competition. The controversy was closed prematurely; various contributions published … analysis of competition; it is too often neglected in favour of the sole competition on margins. …

degree of competition using the H-statistic by Panzar and Rosse (1987). The estimated H-statistics for the whole sample … periods are positive ranging from 0.38 to 0.62 and the Wald test for the market structure of monopoly or perfect competition … is rejected implying that the Islamic banks in Malaysia earned their revenue in the condition of monopolistic competition. …

strong support for the self-selection hypothesis, according to which firms need higher productivity performance to compensate … productivity levels for exporters. The paper also tests for the reverse causality (learning-by-exporting), but finds no empirical … support for it, not even after controlling for the firm's distance to a constructed international productivity frontier. This …

This study examines telecommunications productivity, technological catch-up and innovation in 74 countries for the … period 1991-1995. A summary of partial productivity indicators is presented, and total factor productivity (TFP) growth is … calculated using the Malmquist productivity change index. Decomposition of the Malmquist index provides preliminary evidence that …

. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

The desire to increase manufacturing productivity has been a commonly cited goal of the trade liberalization episodes … in productivity. However, this paper finds that the methodology used in the literature ignores inter …-industry productivity spillovers and suggests that this omission biases estimates of the impact of import tariff reduction on industry …

factor productivity (TFP) in determining both the wage premium and tariffs. This omission invalidates the use of the pre … tariffs reduces the wage premium by 1.1%. This finding suggests the importance of using policies that boost productivity to …

German and Austrian firm productivity. Unique matching of data from 1994 to 2003 suggests that tarif reductions raise parent … firm productivity significantly. A ten percentage point decrease in tarif rates can lead to total factor productivity gains …