Does greater product market competition improve external competitiveness and growth? This paper examines this question … productivity growth. Price levels, including of essential items, are also generally lowered with an increase in competition … emerging market economies and developing countries, and finds that an improvement in domestic competition is associated with a …

power in global markets. First, competition has declinedaround the world, measured as a moderate increase in average firm …

Productivity growth in Japan, as in most advanced economies, has moderated. This paper finds supportive evidence for … the important role of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in explaining Japan's modest productivity growth. Results … show a substantial dispersion in firm-level productivity growth across sectors and even across firms within the same sector …

amount of momentum towards fast growth. There is a possibility that, within the wider context of globalization, several of …

footprint is also reflected in market competition and efficiency. Although sectors in which the state is present are more … competition, in particular in state procurement. Finally, state-owned enterprises' performance appears weaker than that of … privately-owned firms, which may be subtracting from growth …

FDI has played a strong role in the export-led growth of eastern European countries that are now members of the … and cost efficiency. Over time, foreign investment has restructured the exports sector in these countries in favor of …

emerging European economies during the mid-2000s resulted in rapid economic growth and convergence to EU income levels. This … financing and lower growth …

This paper examines the role of removing obstacles to competition in product markets in raising growth and productivity …