It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … growth in total factor productivity. …

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … growth in total factor productivity. -- entry ; productivity ; institutions ; regulations ; India ; reforms …

India has witnessed a series of policy reforms since 1991, which aimed to increase productivity of the manufacturing … sector. Did these reforms increase productivity in manufacturing plants? We address this question using rich data from the …-level productivity in manufacturing. This result holds whether we look at the reforms individually using a difference …

productivity is derived. A semi-parametric approach is applied on a 3-digit level of industrial data over major states during 1998 …–2014 to regress the Solow residual (the proxy for productivity) on trade share along with its interaction terms capturing … hence raises productivity. It is argued that the joint effects of market size and competition arising out of trade cannot …