Market Structure and Productivity: A Concrete Example

By Chad Syverson. Journal of Political Economy, 2004

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Network Analysis of World Trade using the BACI-CEPII Dataset (2014, positive): “13 General overviews of the formal descriptions of graphs and networks can be found in Wasserman and Faust (1994), Newman (2010) and Jackson (2010).”
The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals (2015, neutral): “6 There is a large theoretical and empirical literature on productivity and competition, for example see Nickell (1996), Syverson (2004), Schmitz (2005), Fabrizio, Rose and Wolfram (2007) and the survey by Holmes and Schmitz (2010).”
The evolution of inequality in productivity and wages: panel data evidence (2010, positive): “With heterogeneous firms, increases in competition will generally lower the productivity dispersion (see Syverson, 2004, for a model and empirical evidence confirming the importance of this intuition).”
Cementing Relationships: Vertical Integration, Foreclosure, Productivity, and Prices (2007, neutral): “Productivity/ efficiency explanations, on the other hand, imply that any observed effect of integration on turnover acts only inasmuch as productivity and integration are connected; hence integration’s effects should disappear once productivity is controlled for.17”
Export Sectors and Rural Development (2009, positive): “Indeed, because of the competitive pressure, productivity is usually higher in export sectors than in sectors insulated from competition by high transport costs (Syverson, 2004).”