Endogenous Antitrust: Cross-Country Evidence on the Impact of Competition-Enhancing Policies on Productivity

This paper presents empirical evidence regarding the effect of simultaneous antitrust and trade policy on productivity. We find that treating antitrust across countries as an exogenous policy overestimates the impact of competition on productivity by as much as 18%.

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Year of publication:	2005-04-08
Authors:	Borrell, Joan-Ramon ; Tolosa, Mara
Institutions:	EconWPA
Subject:	Antitrust \| Productivity \| Political economy

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Industrial Organization.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Notes:	Type of Document - pdf; pages: 8 8 pages
Classification:	D7 - Analysis of Collective Decision-Making ; L4 - Antitrust Policy ; O4 - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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