This paper examines the roles of cost of labour input and competition on productivity dispersion in the Vietnamese … accounts for a part of the productivity dispersion. The paper also examines the role of competition in the extent of …

decades in a comparative perspective. The paper outlines the growth trajectory of Slovenia from the onset of Habsburg Empire …In the past 20 years, the Slovenia has been praised as the richest former socialist country, having accomplished the … from former socialist block. In the due course of transition to market, Slovenia adopted the gradualist approach to …

decades in a comparative perspective. The paper outlines the growth trajectory of Slovenia from the onset of Habsburg Empire …In the past 20 years, the Slovenia has been praised as the richest former socialist country, having accomplished the … from former socialist block. In the due course of transition to market, Slovenia adopted the gradualist approach to …

institutions the better the effects on the Human development and growth of a country. The aim of this paper is to analyse in a more …

purpose of the paper is to evaluate the efficiency of some public policy measures in Romania, in time periods 2004 and 2005 … Romania and we focus on the most significant ten interventions. The efficiency analysis in performed using data envelopment … analysis for each year and we use Malmquist index numbers for evaluating the changes in efficiency of LMP in 2005 compared to …

Bulgaria, the efficiency of research and development activities is particularly important, since technological progress is one … of the core aspects of economic growth. In this article we describe the common features of the two countries, but also … countries and marginal regions must close the gap with more developed regions. The paper analyzes research efficiency at the …

impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in … Japanese manufacturing for the years 1994-2000, I show that competition, as measured by lower level of industrial price …-cost margin, enhances productivity growth, controlling for a broad range of industrial and firm-specific characteristics. Moreover …

-level productivity. We also examine whether M&As increase efficiency through reallocation of production to more efficient plants or …

, technology capability, competition concentration, returns of scale,…). We use the model’s theoretical results to analyze … simultaneously the effects on the structure and the average efficiency of the industry and to develop a framework for understanding …