Competition and productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries

Journal of the Japanese and International Economies

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 586-616

  Okada, Yosuke ^a  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Competition; Dynamic panel data model; GMM; Manufacturing; Price cost margin; Productivity; R D

Indexed keywords

EID: 29744447446     PISSN: 08891583     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jjie.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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