the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within …

Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …. Those with higher TFP have higher survival probabilities. However, increased competition does not induce incumbents to raise …Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to …

the mandate of institutions enforcing competition is critical to raise productivity … competition across 1,800 municipalities and matches it with establishment census panel data to estimate the impact on … establishment productivity and markups. The elimination of local barriers that were inconsistent with national legislation was the …

competition and innovation have a simultaneous positive effect on labour productivity in terms of either sales or value added per …We investigate the drivers of firm level productivity in catching-up economies by jointly estimating its relationship … to innovation and competition using data from the EBRD-WB Business Environment and Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS …

power in global markets. First, competition has declined around the world, measured as a moderate increase in average firm …