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Dynamic Market Selection in EU Business Services

Kox, Henk L. M. - 2016

European business services have experienced about two decades of almost zero productivity growth. The paper … an indicator for the effectiveness of market selection.We use a DEA method to construct the productivity frontier by sub … lack of import penetration. The results suggest that policy reform and more market openness will have positive productivity …

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Technical Rules and (Competition between) Legal Systems. Divergence or Convergence in the Standardization Domain?

Giannaccari, Andrea - 2018

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Market Power, Productivity and the EU Single Market Program : An Ex-Post Assessment on Italian Firm Level Data

Bottasso, Anna; Sembenelli, Alessandro - 2001

factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood … shocks, provided they affect all firms randomly. Both market power and total factor productivity are estimated by applying …-sample of "most sensitive" firms a positive transitory shock to productivity growth rates is observed immediately after the …

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Non Tariff Barriers to Trade in Mercosur : Focusing Brazilian Exports of Steel Products

de Oliveira Júnior, Marcio - 2001

The main aim of this paper is to identify and to analyze the presence of Non Tariff Barriers (NTBs) imposed to Brazilian exports of steel products by Mercosur's member countries. The NTBs were identified through interviews with Brazilian companies and through questionaries sent to Brazilian...

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Is China Climbing Up the Quality Ladder?

Pula, Gábor - 2014

There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China imposes a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China's export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below...

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Is China Climbing Up the Quality Ladder?

Pula, Gábor - 2012

There is an ongoing debate in the literature about the quality content of Chinese exports and to what extent China poses a threat to the market positions of advanced economies. While China's export structure is very similar to that of the advanced world, its export unit values are well below the...

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