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Competition and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

By Marc Schiffbauer, Sandra Ospina

March 1, 2010

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Marc Schiffbauer, and Sandra Ospina. Competition and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Firm-Level Data, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2010) accessed October 10, 2024
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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.

Subject: Commodity markets, Competition, Labor productivity, Productivity, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Factor share, Firm level, Productivity growth, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    34

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2010/067

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2010067

  • ISBN:

    9781451982114

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941