Competition and Productivity: A Review of the Evidence

By James A. Schmitz, Thomas J. Holmes. 2010

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Gains from Trade When Firms Matter (2012, unknown): “Examples can be found in Blum et al. (2010) and Holmes and Schmitz (2010).”
International competition and industrial evolution: Evidence from the impact of Chinese competition on Mexican maquiladoras (2013, unknown): “The coefficients have the right signs but are insignificant.(28) In column (4), we use a stricter classification defined by the third quarter, High3qCHT ,(29) and the interaction term is found to be positive and significant.”
Equilibrium Technology Diffusion, Trade, and Growth (2021, background): “…investments that manifest themselves as improvements in productivity like improved production practices, work practices, supply-chain and inventory management, etc. that are already in use by other firms (see, for example, the discussions in Holmes and Schmitz (2010) and Syverson (2011)).”
The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals (2015, unknown): “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).”