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 …

(process) R&D and quality (efficiency), and find strong evidence that process innovation is related to higher efficiency, while …

growth in India's economy - the IT (information technology) sector, export trade (with its externality effects) and the …

The dynamics of industry growth, technology and globalization have a dramatic impact on the current economic growth of … an emphasis in three main areas; non-parametric models of growth, sources of industry growth and non-competitive market …&D investment and Solow-type technical progress, using the non-parametric methods of efficiency analysis, also known as Data …

increased competition from demand shocks in export markets - and the induced product mix reallocations - induce productivity …

publicly subsidized, rises with the total number of firms in the industry, and rises with growth in the pace or extent of cost … degree of competition in a market with the share of nonprofits: the availability of economic profits under for-profit status …