Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …

This paper examines the role of competition in productivity perfromance in Britain over the period from the late …-nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. A detailed review of the evidence suggests that the weakness of competition from the … 1930s to the 1970s undermined productivity growth but since the 1970s stronger competition has been a key ingredient in …

Using the manufacturing sector data at the three-digit level, the paper examines whether the degree of competition … improves productivity in developing countries. The degree of competition is measured through markups while productivity is … productivity growth. In general, the existence of State-Owned Enterprises is an obstacle to competition. We conclude that the …

competition and openness are the objects of national policy. While no regions are equivalent, the example of East Asia, even with …

productivity. The analysis finds that privatisation and competition per se critically impact on penetration and productivity … performance. However, the mode of implementing any liberalisation reform matters, viz., privatisation and competition are …

The paper investigates the effects of industry-level competition on firm-level innovation and productivity. We propose … a refined version of the CDM model that analyses the impacts of competition on four interrelated stages of the …