Assessing the Competitive Behaviour of Firms in the Single Market: A Micro-based Approach - ECFIN - European Commission

Assessing the Competitive Behaviour of Firms in the Single Market: A Micro-based Approach - ECFIN - European Commission

(...) The report analyses and compares a number of indicators related to the evolution of the competitive behaviour of firms in the

Single Market, from 1999 to 2007, in a selected number of both manufacturing and services industries and eight EU countries: Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain and Sweden. A novelty of the approach is that the analysis is derived from firm-level observable data, providing information which is impossible to gather in detail from aggregate, traditional sector-level measures. (...)