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dc.contributor.author	Aghion, Philippe
dc.contributor.author	Braun, Matias
dc.contributor.author	Fedderke, Johannes
dc.date.accessioned	2009-10-14T15:17:02Z
dc.date.issued	2008
dc.identifier.citation	Aghion, Philippe, Matias Braun, and Johannes Fedderke. 2008. Competition and productivity growth in South Africa. Economics of Transition 16(4): 741-768.	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0967-0750	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:3350068
dc.description.abstract	This article shows that mark-ups are significantly higher in South African manufacturing industries than they are in corresponding industries worldwide. We test for the consequences of this low-level of product market competition on productivity growth. The results of the paper are that high mark-ups have a large negative impact on productivity growth in South African manufacturing industry. Our results are robust to three different data sources, two alternative measures of productivity growth, and three distinct measures of the mark-up. Controlling for potential endogeneity of regressors does not eliminate the findings. The definitive version is available at www3.interscience.wiley.com.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Economics	en_US
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Blackwell Publishing	en_US
dc.relation.isversionof	http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0351.2008.00336.x	en_US
dc.relation.hasversion	http://www.economics.harvard.edu/faculty/aghion/papers_aghion	en_US
dash.license	LAA
dc.subject	mark-ups	en_US
dc.subject	productivity growth	en_US
dc.subject	manufacturing industry	en_US
dc.subject	South Africa	en_US
dc.subject	product market competition	en_US
dc.title	Competition and Productivity Growth in South Africa	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article	en_US
dc.description.version	Accepted Manuscript	en_US
dc.relation.journal	Economics of Transition	en_US
dash.depositing.author	Aghion, Philippe
dc.date.available	2009-10-14T15:17:02Z

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