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firms' distance to the efficiency frontier and country differences in product market regulation. Using firm-level data for a … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …
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firms' distance to the efficiency frontier and country differences in product market regulation. Using firm-level data for a … product market regulation measures depending on firms' positions along the global distribution of productivity levels. The … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276805
Although antitrust courts sometimes stress the competitive process, they have not deeply explored what that process is. Inspired by the theory of the core, we explore the idea that the competitive process is the process of sellers and buyers forming improving coalitions. Much of antitrust can be...
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finds that despite the regulatory difficulties, the Internet is far from being a “regulation-free” space as there are … regulation. Most of them aim at protecting personal data and consumers more generally. In many cases generally applicable laws …
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This paper presents a database on indicators of product market regulations and employment protection legislation for most of the OECD countries and illustrates a methodology for aggregating these detailed indicators into summary indicators of the strictness of regulations. The summary indicators...
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This paper describes trends in product market regulation in OECD countries over the period 1998 to 2003. The analysis … is based on summary indicators of product market regulation that measure the degree to which policies promote or inhibit …. Regulation has also become more homogenous across the OECD as countries with relatively restrictive policies have, in some areas …
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This paper uses the OECD's indicators of product market regulation to assess the extent to which the regulatory … environment affects economic performance across Indian states. The degree to which product market regulation is supportive of … regulation have a significant impact on both labour and total factor productivity. States in which the regulatory environment …
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developing countries. This paper uses the OECD's indicators of product market regulation (PMR) to assess the extent to which … stance of product market regulation is still relatively restrictive. The regulatory environment is also found to vary … product market regulation in India and suggest a number of policy initiatives that would improve the degree to which …
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This paper describes patterns and developments of regulation that potentially affect product market competition in OECD … countries over the past decade. It uses the 2008 update and revision of the OECD indicators of product market regulation (PMR …) that integrate to a larger extent than in the past information on sector-specific regulation and adapt a simpler and more …
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State enterprises (SEs) have been increasingly competing with private firms in international markets, in terms of both cross-border trade and FDI. Given both the potentially positive contribution internationally trading and investing SEs can make, as well as the concerns raised about their...
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