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Productivity dynamics : the role of competition in a service industry
Breda, Thomas; Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2019
Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches which compete with one another for union members whose...
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How to set budget caps for competitive grants
De Chiara, Alessandro; Iossa, Elisabetta - 2019
We study how funding agencies should set budget caps for competitive grants. We show that budget caps influence the researchers' submission strategy and, in particular, whether they steer their project choice towards the agencies' favorite projects, and the level of funds they request. The...
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Credit quantity and credit quality : bank competition and capital accumulation
Cetorelli, Nicola; Peretto, Pietro F. - 2009
This paper shows that bank competition has an intrinsically ambiguous effect on capital accumulation and economic growth. We further demonstrate that banking market structure can be responsible for the emergence of development traps in economies that would otherwise be characterized by unique...
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Concentration and market power in the food chain
Deconinck, Koen - 2021
Concerns about market power and competition in the agri-food sector are widespread, with commentators regularly suggesting that farmers are in a structurally weaker position than other actors, who therefore benefit at their expense. The evidence reviewed in this paper indicates that downstream...
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Enhancing business dynamism and consumer welfare in Costa Rica with regulatory reform
González Pandiella, Alberto - 2020
Regulations of product markets serve legitimate objectives but, when ill-designed, can impose unnecessary restrictions on competition, and therefore on business dynamism, productivity and ultimately well-being. A recent update of the OECD’s Product Market Regulation indicator for Costa Rica...
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Asistencias técnicas y competitividad de las MiPyMEs: Evidencia para Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Garone, Lucas Figal; Maffioli, … - 2016
Este estudio evalúa el impacto de asistencias técnicas a micro, pequeñas y medianas empresas (MiPyME) cofinanciadas por el Programa de Acceso al Crédito y Competitividad (PACC) en Argentina. El programa tiene como objetivo incrementar la competitividad de las MiPyME mediante aportes no...
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Asistencias técnicas y competitividad de las MiPyMEs : evidencia para Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Garone, Lucas Figal; Maffioli, … - 2016
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The impact of emerging market competition on innovation and business strategy : evidence from Canada
Küng, Lorenz; Li, Nicholas; Yang, Mu-Jeung - 2017 - This version: December 2017
How do firms in high-income countries adjust to emerging market competition? We estimate how a representative panel of Canadian firms adjusts innovation activities, business strategies, and exit in response to large increases in Chinese imports. Whether firms invest in process or product...
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SME Performance, Innovation and Networking Evidence on Complementarities for a Local Economic System
Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Mancinelli, Susanna - 2007
The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … performance. The complementarity with networking is a consequential step. Networking by itself cannot thus play a role in … networking are to be sustained and favoured. our evidence suggests that R&D may be a single main driver of performance. Since R …
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Firms' differential innovative success and market dynamics
Cantner, Uwe - 2007
shares and the relation to their respective relative technological performance and to their or innovative performance are … investigated with productivity levels as a proxy for technological performance and productivity changes as proxy for innovative … performance. …
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