longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, this study analyzes how firm efficiency …, and international trade also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique …

. Changes in firm ownership type have no direct impact on firm efficiency. However, increased market competition related to … surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Results strongly confirm that market competition fosters efficiency. …Using a unique longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia from 1994 to 2001, this article analyzes …

longitudinal data set on all manufacturing firms in Slovenia over the period 1994-2001, the authors analyze how firm efficiency …-owned firms, and international trade, also raise firm efficiency in the industry. Results strongly confirm that market competition …The Slovenian transition represents a slow, but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique …

or substitutability of market competition and private ownership in increasing firm efficiency. We analyze a simple … efficiency impact from increased market dispersion, measured to account for geographic dispersion, but the share of its … competition, and thus that competition only among state-owned enterprises may be ineffectual in stimulating them to increase …

This paper investigates the extent to which productivity growth is the result of turnover - the process that shifts … and others lose it. Some turnover is due to entry and exit. The other part arises from growth and decline in incumbent … continuing producers. The paper proposes a method for measuring the impact of plant turnover on productivity growth and outlines …