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Product Market Reforms and Unemployment in Europe

Gersbach, Hans; Schniewind, Achim - 2001

In this paper we study how promoting product market competition by reducing mark-ups or by increasing productivity are able to complement labor market reforms. We use a simple general equilibrium model with different types of labor. The bottom-line of the paper is that product market reforms...

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Economic growth with political lobbying and wage bargaining

Palokangas, Tapio - 2009

This paper examines an economy with a large number of industries, each producing a different good. Technological change follows a Poisson process where firms improve their productivity through investment in R&D. The less there are firms in the economy or the more they can coordinate their...

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What is the value of entrepreneurship? A review of recent research

van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …

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The impact of cultural diversity on innovation: Evidence from Dutch firm-level data

Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2011

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

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Do Market Pressures Induce Economic Efficiency: The Case of Slovenian Manufacturing, 1994-2001

Orazem, Peter F.; Vodopivec, Milan - 2003

The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency changed in response to changing competitive...

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Do institutions, ownership, exporting and competition explain firm performance? Evidence from 26 transition countries

Commander, Simon; Svejnar, Jan - 2007

We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm's top manager's perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy measures...

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Trade reforms and market selection: evidence from manufacturing plants in Colombia

Eslava Mejía, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John; Kugler, … - 2009

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark-ups and input costs. We find that each of these market fundamentals are important in explaining plant exit. We then use variation across sectors in tariff changes after the...

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Information and competition entry

Ewers, Mara - 2012

This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition failure, where competition failure occurs when a subject...

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Competition and educational productivity: Incentives writ large

MacLeod, William Bentley; Urquiola Soux, Miguel - 2012

Friedman (1962) suggested that in general, unfettered markets ensure the efficient provision of goods and services. Applying this logic to Education, he recommended that students be provided with vouchers and allowed to purchase schooling services in a free market ((Friedman (1955, 1962)). Hoxby...

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Discrete innovation, continuous improvement, and competitive pressure

Ghosh, Arghya; Kato, Takao; Morita, Hodaka - 2007

Does competitive pressure foster innovation? In addressing this important question, prior studies ignored a distinction … between discrete innovation aiming at entirely new technology and continuous improvement consisting of numerous incremental … innovation will lead to a much richer understanding of the interplay between firms' incentives to innovate and competitive …

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