Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10477992 | Journal of the Japanese and International Economies | 2005 | 31 Pages |
Abstract
This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in Japanese manufacturing for the years 1994-2000, I show that competition, as measured by lower level of industrial price-cost margin, enhances productivity growth, controlling for a broad range of industrial and firm-specific characteristics. Moreover, I suggest that market power, as measured by either individual firm's price-cost margin or market share, has negative impact on productivity level of R & D performing firms. J. Japanese Int. Economies19 (4) (2005) 586-616.
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Authors
Yosuke Okada,