The role of regulatory quality as one of the so-called deep determinants of growth has emerged as an important issue in … economic research in the past 20 years. The positive or negative growth effects of a countryś regulatory framework are …. Therefore, the two potential determinants to growth might be interlinked. So far there is very little empirical evidence on the …

prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … evidence that trade openness exerts a competitive effect, with prices and markups falling and productivity rising. Consistent … naturally to a difference in differences estimation, with international differences in trade openness at the sector level …

the result of low TFP and thus GDP growth-not the cause …

Productivity performance in European countries has been a policy concern for some time. This paper shows that … productivity can be enhanced by product market policies which, by increasing competition and efficiency, facilitate higher rates of … churning, in turn, appears to be positively related to higher total factor productivity at the sector level by facilitating the …