-country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a review … of product market regulation on mark- ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation, productivity and output …

the United States, is that the heavy regulation of the former reduces their growth. Using newly assembled data on … regulation in several sectors of many OECD countries, we provide substantial and robust evidence that various measures of … regulation in the product markets, concerning in particular entry barriers, are negatively related to investment. The policy …

service provision which captures the effect of regulation on provider behavior. High fixed costs explain the growth of large … clinics and estimates show regulation increased entry costs for small providers. A simulation removing all regulations …

stochastic R&D activities to evaluate market share regulation policy. On the one hand, market share regulation discourages the … share regulation. However, the social welfare including firms' profits would be hurt if both firms are equally good at R … share regulation can improve the social welfare. We relate our analysis to a case study of Asahi Brewery's introducing Asahi …