Foreign competition and the reallocation of economic activity within and across firms: measuring the productivity gains and the impacts on workers KU Leuven
This thesis consists of three chapters on the influence of firms' market power on derived factor demand and the reallocation of productive resources.
In the first chapter, I investigate how imperfect competition impacts resource reallocation and how we tend to measure it. The covariance between firms’ productivity and market shares is commonly used to analyze how the allocation of resources evolves within an industry in the aftermath ...