Competition in Services and Efficiency of Manufacturing Firms: Does 'Liberalization' Matter?

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“…Only very few studies have investigated the influence of upstream competition on the performances of downstream industries. Some of them are panel data analyses for one country at the industry level (such as Allegra et al ., , for Italy, or at the firm level, Forlani, , on France and Arnold et al ., , on the Czech Republic), and they all use specific indicators of upstream competition, as for example Lerner index or concentration index. Other studies (like Faini et al ., ; Barone and Cingano, , and Bourlès et al ., ) rely on country‐industry panel data analyses and on the OECD regulation indicators in upstream industries, as we do in this paper.…”

Unleashing Competition in EU Business Services

“…19 See Bourles et al (2010), Forlani (2010, Giovannetti et al (2010), Nordås (2008), Rubalcaba & Kox (2007) and Arnold et al (2006). 20 The European Central Bank has compared profit rates across European industrial sectors and concludes: "[...] the services sector has the highest profit share (the ratio of profits to nominal value added)" (Maurin et al, 2011 Bartelsman et al, 2012).…”

Services Policy Reform and Manufacturing Employment: Evidence from Transition Economies

“…In this paper we build on this literature to assess the effects of services-related policies on manufacturing employment for a panel of transition economies. Rather than focus on the impact 1 Firm-level analyses of productivity effects include Arnold et al (2008Arnold et al ( , 2011; Fernandes and Paunov (2011);Forlani (2012); Duggan et al (2013); Bas (2014); Hoekman and Shepherd (2015) and Arnold et al (2016). Studies using sector-level data include Barone and Cingano (2011); Bourlès et al (2013) and Beverelli et al (2015).…”