COMPETITION AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE TURKISH MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY*

Year 2009, Volume: 17 Issue: 1&2, 175 - 193, 25.12.2009

Zeynep Kaplan

https://doi.org/10.29228/mjes.160

Abstract

This paper analyzes the impact of changes in the competitive market
structure on industry productivity growth. The aim of the paper is to
examine the determinants of productivity in Turkish manufacturing
industries, by elaborating particularly at the impact of competition policy
on productivity. Using a newly available panel data in Turkish
manufacturing industry for the years 1992-2001, it is shown that
competition (as measured by lower level of industrial price-cost margin)
enhances productivity growth.

Keywords

Competition, Price-cost margin, Manufacturing industry

COMPETITION AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE TURKISH MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY*

Abstract

This paper analyzes the impact of changes in the competitive market
structure on industry productivity growth. The aim of the paper is to
examine the determinants of productivity in Turkish manufacturing
industries, by elaborating particularly at the impact of competition policy
on productivity. Using a newly available panel data in Turkish
manufacturing industry for the years 1992-2001, it is shown that
competition (as measured by lower level of industrial price-cost margin)
enhances productivity growth. 

Keywords

Rekabet, Fiyat-maliyet marjı, imalat sanayi

References

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• Togan, S., Nebioglu, Hand Dogan, S. (2005). Integration and the Manufacturing Industry, in Turkey: Economic Reform and Accession to the European Union I edt, Bernard Hoekman and Siibidey Togan, Washington, DC: World Bank, London: Centre for Economic Policy Research.