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The Impact of Product Market Reforms on Firm Productivity in Italy

By Sergi Lanau, Petia Topalova

June 15, 2016

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Sergi Lanau, and Petia Topalova. The Impact of Product Market Reforms on Firm Productivity in Italy, (USA: International Monetary Fund, 2016) accessed October 15, 2024
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Summary

This paper examines the role of removing obstacles to competition in product markets in raising growth and productivity. Using firm-level data from Italy during 2003–13 and OECD measures of product market regulation, we estimate the effect of deregulation in network sectors on value added and productivity of firms in these sectors, as well as firms using these intermediates in their production processes. We find evidence of a significant positive impact. These effects are more pronounced in Italian provinces with more efficient public administration, underscoring the complementarities of advancing public administration and product market reforms simultaneously.

Subject: Commodity markets, Competition, Expenditure, Financial markets, Production, Productivity, Public expenditure review, Total factor productivity

Keywords: Commodity markets, Competition, Downstream firm, Firm, Firm data, Firm performance, Firm size variable, Firms exit, Global, Growth, Performance metrics, Performance variable, Product markets, Productivity, Public expenditure review, Structural reforms, Total factor productivity, WP

Publication Details

  • Pages:

    25

  • Volume:

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  • DOI:

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  • Issue:

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  • Series:

    Working Paper No. 2016/119

  • Stock No:

    WPIEA2016119

  • ISBN:

    9781475524925

  • ISSN:

    1018-5941