Industrial Competition, Shifts in Market Share and Productivity Growth

Industrial Competition, Shifts in Market Share and Productivity Growth

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Competition and Productivity Growth in South Africa

Spatial Competition and Market Share: An Application to Motion Pictures

This paper presents an empirical assessment of movie theatre attendance in two major metropolitan markets and provides strong support for the importance of spatial characteristics in determining attendance. We consider the hypothesis that attendance at a particular movie theatre reflects a tension between two effects: a negative competition effect and a positive agglomeration effect. We find ev...

1 Market Share and Exchange rate Pass - through : Competition among

Using a sample from January 1988 to December 2005 for exports of five Japanese major ports to six destination countries, we examine the effect of market share (with respect to competitors from the same country) on exchange rate pass-through (henceforth, ERPT). Our dataset is unique, allowing us to control for market shares among competing exporters with the same nationality. A close examination...

Learning versus Stealing: How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth

The new trade theory emphasizes the role of market-share reallocations across firms (“stealing”) in driving productivity growth, while the older literature focused on average productivity improvements (“learning”). We use comprehensive, firm-level data from India’s organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important role in aggregate productivity gains i...