host-country research and development effort in response to foreign competition, is one of three examining the impact of …

employment in the presence of foreign competition shocks. We exploit the fact that in a small open economy such as Canada the … by 0.19%. We use our estimates to trace the effects of foreign competition on the industry and firm-level sales and value …

industrial policies allocated to competitive sectors or that foster competition in a sector increase productivity growth. We … measure competition using the Lerner Index and include as industrial policies subsidies, tax holidays, loans, and tariffs …. Measures to foster competition include policies that are more dispersed across firms in a sector or measures that encourage …

competition between the two channels, the paper uses a two step approach. First, it fits hedonic regressions for the prices paid …

; they do not include the likely fee increases resulting from less competition among auditors. We calculate that the latter …

simple model is used to show that import competition may stimulate growth by reducing the market power of domestic innovators …. Specifically, import competition forces domestic innovators to chose between either quickening their pace of innovation or being … displaced by foreign innovators. The pro-growth effect of import competition is shown to be welfare-increasing. The paper …

It has long been believed that international competition forces domestic firms to behave more competitively. I term … industries to which the hypothesis is relevant, markups change in the direction predicted by the theory. These changes are …