COMPETITION AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE TURKISH MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY*

Öz

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.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Competition
• Price-cost margin
• Manufacturing industry

COMPETITION AND PRODUCTIVITY IN THE TURKISH MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY*

Öz

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. 

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Rekabet
• Fiyat-maliyet marjı
• imalat sanayi

Kaynakça

1. Taymaz, E. and Yllmaz, K. (2007). Productivity and Trade Orientation: Turkish Manufacturing Industry before and after the Customs Union. The Journal of International Trade and Diplomacy 1 (1), Spring, 127154.
2. 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.