significant. Despite impressive progress, product market regulation remains more burdensome than in most OECD countries, partly … inefficient bankruptcy procedures induce significant resource misallocation. A welcome deregulation of professional services is … sector regulators in network industries and the powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced, as the reform …

procedures, internationalisation needs to be fostered, and competition strengthened. In addition, the negative impact of the …

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 … normes de l'industrie, des accords de co-régulation entre l'industrie et le gouvernement, et dans certains cas, la …

. Fostering competition by removing regulatory barriers and improving public procurement would help. In addition, innovation …

the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over … 1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that … sectoriels de régulation sur les marchés des biens. Les résultats montrent que, sur les 15 dernières années, les régulations …

strengthen competition, entrepreneurship and innovation would go a long way toward enhancing it. Recent competition policy …

of competition and economic performance.<P>Régulation des services dans les pays de l'OCDE : évaluation et traits …Product market regulation in the non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries: measurement and highlights This paper … describes a new set of indicators that measure differences in the regulation of non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries over …

worker (age, sex, education and type of contract) in 12 European and North-American countries. The effects of regulation on … these wage premia are estimated by panel data regression techniques. We find that product market regulation restricting … competition has a significant positive impact on wage premia in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. However, in …

in various sectors of the Danish economy. It looks at a number of indicators of the strength of competition — including … price levels, industrial concentration and product market regulation — and it discusses the appropriateness of the … competition legislation framework. The paper then focuses on the large public sector, which has been slow to open up to …