Journal of Applied Economic Research
ISSN 2712-7435
Evaluation of the Level of Competition in Ukraine in Industrial Production Industries
A.A. Sennikova, A.A. Pushakrev
Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Abstract
The aim of this work is to study market competition on the example of Ukrainian companies in all manufacturing industries for the period 2008-17 and to compare the results with the similar indicators for the Russian Federation. The study is based on microdata for more than twenty thousand Ukrainian companies. The main analysis tools are aggregate labor productivity decomposition and econometric assessment of the relationship between the productivity of companies and their revenue growth. The first method makes it possible to single out the share of productivity growth provided by the redistribution of market shares in favor of the more productive firms (which represents competitive process), and the share provided by the firms' own growth of productivity. The second method allows us to analyze how the static and dynamic components of productivity affect the revenue growth of firms. The analysis of the literature indicates a weak role of competitive selection both in developed countries (USA, EU countries) and in developing countries (Russia and its regions). The results of the analysis indicate a limited role of competition in the growth of industrial labor productivity in Ukraine, as well as an insignificant role of companies’ own productivity in determining the growth of their sales. Moreover, such results are obtained both for decomposition and for econometric analysis and are robust to different ways of measuring productivity. Comparing the results with the estimates obtained earlier for Russia, we conclude that the role of competition is significantly lower for the Ukrainian manufacturing industries and firms in these industries. The results can be useful when working out recommendations for improving industrial policy, as well as in analyzing the market position of firms.
Keywords
market selection; competition; decomposition of productivity; labor productivity; total factor productivity
JEL classification
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Acknowledgements
This study was supported by a grant of the President of the Russian Federation for young doctorsof sciences MD‑3196.2019.6. The authors are grateful to I. Savin for the scientific guidanceand comments that have made it possible to significantly improve this article
About Authors
Sennikova Anna Andreevna – Post-Graduate Student, Department of Econometrics and Statistics, School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russia (620002, Ekaterinburg, Mira street, 19); ORCID 0000-0003-3163-026X; e-mail: anna.sennikova@urfu.ru.
Pushakrev Andrey Alexandrovich – Senior lecturer, Department of Econometrics and Statistics, School of Economics and Management, Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin, Ekaterinburg, Russia (620002, Ekaterinburg, Mira street, 19); ORCID 0000-0002-2193-1619; e-mail: a.a.pushkarev@urfu.ru.
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Sennikova A. A., Pushakrev A. A. Evaluation of the Level of Competition in Ukraine in Industrial Production Industries. Journal of Applied Economic Research, 2020, Vol. 19, No. 1, 40–59.DOI: 10.15826/vestnik.2020.19.1.003.
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Received November 22, 2019; Revised January 28, 2020; Accepted February 25, 2020
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15826/vestnik.2020.19.1.003
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