Competition and productivity: a review of evidence

TJ Holmes, JA Schmitz Jr - Annu. Rev. Econ., 2010 - annualreviews.org
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Incentives and the efficiency of public sector‐outsourcing contracts

PH Jensen, RE Stonecash - Journal of economic Surveys, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Outsourcing the provision of traditionally publicly provided services has become
commonplace in most industrialized nations. Despite its prevalence, there still is no …

Regulation, productivity and growth: OECD evidence

G Nicoletti, S Scarpetta - Economic policy, 2003 - academic.oup.com
Liberalization and privatization have made the regulatory environment more market-friendly
throughout the OECD. However using a large new dataset on product market regulation, we …

The role of policy and institutions for productivity and firm dynamics: Evidence from micro and industry data

S Scarpetta, P Hemmings, T Tressel, J Woo - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper presents empirical evidence on the role that policy and institutional settings in
both product and labour market play for productivity and firm dynamics. It exploits a new firm …

Explaining the variance in the performance effects of privatization

A Cuervo, B Villalonga - Academy of management review, 2000 - journals.aom.org
Agency and public choice theories of privatization indicate that a privatized firm's
performance will improve on average, but they do not include an explanation of the …

Firm productivity and institutional quality: Evidence from Italian industry

A Lasagni, A Nifo, G Vecchione - Journal of Regional Science, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
This paper aims to contribute to the debate on the determinants of differentials in firms'
productivity. We test the hypothesis that macro factors, especially the quality of local …

Institutional quality and firms' productivity in European regions

M Agostino, MR Di Tommaso, A Nifo, L Rubini… - Regional …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
The relationship between regional institutional quality and firms' productivity in the period
2010–14 is investigated by regressing a measure of total factor productivity for European …

Productivity and convergence in a panel of OECD industries: Do regulations and institutions matter?

S Scarpetta, T Tressel - 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
We analyse the impact of innovation activity and product and labour market institutions on
multi-factor productivity in a panel of 23 industries in 18 OECD countries using a novel …

Rational inefficiencies

P Bogetoft, JL Hougaard - Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2003 - Springer
In this paper, we suggest that inefficiency may be an indirect, on-the-job compensation to
agents in an organization. We show how to use actual production data to reveal the trade …

Innovation, patents and economic growth

RA Atun, I Harvey, J Wild - International Journal of Innovation …, 2007 - World Scientific
Empirical evidence demonstrates the value of intellectual property (IP) in creating economic
growth, enhancing productivity and profitability, and increasing enterprise value. Research …