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Competition and Firm Productivity Evidence from Firm-Level Data

This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of competition on firm productivity. Using firm-level observations from the World Bank Enterprise Survey database, we find a positive and robust causal relationship between our proxies for competition and our measures of productivity. We also find...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schiffbauer, Marc
Other Authors: Ospina, Sandra
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. International Monetary Fund 2010
Series:IMF Working Papers
Subjects:
Finance
Productivity
Capital And Total Factor Productivity
Cost
Commodity Exchanges
Industrial Productivity
Production
Competition
Skills
General Financial Markets: General (includes Measurement And Data)
Total Factor Productivity
Labor Productivity
Macroeconomics: Production
Macroeconomics
Occupational Choice
Capacity
Commodity Markets
Human Capital
Finance: General
Production And Operations Management
Georgia
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Collection: International Monetary Fund - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This paper presents empirical evidence on the impact of competition on firm productivity. Using firm-level observations from the World Bank Enterprise Survey database, we find a positive and robust causal relationship between our proxies for competition and our measures of productivity. We also find that countries that implemented product-market reforms had a more pronounced increase in competition, and correspondingly, in productivity: the contribution to productivity growth due to competition spurred by product-market reforms is around 12-15 percent
Physical Description:34 pages
ISBN:9781451982114

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