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The Impact of Trade Competition on Managerial Incentives and Productivity

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  • Cristina Tello-Trillo

    (Yale University, USA)

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We study a model of monopolistic competition with firm heterogeneity –in terms of productivity- in which firms provide incentives to managers to reduce marginal cost. In our model managerial incentives are endogenously determined by firm’s productivity and the intensity of competition. We show how tougher competition, generated by large market size or trade, induces stronger incentives to reduce marginal cost for the more-productive firms while the opposite holds for the less-productive firms; this further affects the selection of heterogeneous producers into the domestic and foreign markets. Aggregate productivity growth is decomposed in two sources, within-firm growth and between-firm growth, a decomposition that has not been theoretically analyzed before. We provide a useful theoretical model to analyze how exposure to competition leads to firm productivity growth and how this further affects aggregate performance measures and selection.

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  • Cristina Tello-Trillo, 2022. "The Impact of Trade Competition on Managerial Incentives and Productivity," Journal of International Business Research and Marketing, Inovatus Services Ltd., vol. 7(2), pages 18-26, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:mgs:jibrme:v:7:y:2021:i:2:p:18-26
    DOI: 10.18775/jibrm.1849-8558.2015.72.3002
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    Cited by:

    1. Rayenda Khresna Brahmana & Hui San Loh & Maria Kontesa, 2020. "Market Competition, Managerial Incentives and Agency Cost," Global Business Review, International Management Institute, vol. 21(4), pages 937-955, August.
    2. Andrew N. Greenland & Mihai Ion & John W. Lopresti & Peter K. Schott, 2020. "Using Equity Market Reactions to Infer Exposure to Trade Liberalization," NBER Working Papers 27510, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Chen, Cheng & Steinwender, Claudia, 2021. "Import competition, heterogeneous preferences of managers, and productivity," Journal of International Economics, Elsevier, vol. 133(C).

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    Keywords

    Competition; Heterogeneous Firms; Managerial Incentives; Productivity; Trade;
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    JEL classification:

    • M00 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - General - - - General

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