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 … indicators and the patterns of product market regulation and regulatory reform that emerge from the analysis. The robustness of …

discusses the main policy issues raised by the need to adapt the regulation of the noncompetitive segments of these industries …

The paper looks at patterns of regulation in service industries and explores their implications for service performance …. Focusing on restrictions to market mechanisms, a map of the state of service regulation in OECD countries is provided, based on … regulation can encourage competition, efficiency and investment in those segments of the service industries where non …

the United States, is that the heavy regulation of Europe reduces its 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 … ... Régulation and investissement<BR><P>Une opinion largement diffuse met en relation le moindre taux de croissance des pays …

particular in the telecommunications sector. Regulatory reforms and technological innovation fuelled expectations of robust … easing competition ... Après la bulle des télécommunications<BR><P>Le changement de siècle a été marqué par un cycle sans … dans le secteur des télécommunications. Les réformes de la réglementation et l'innovation technologique ont nourri les …

policies, a number of challenges remain. Although there are few sectors of the economy from which competition policy and law … competition enforcement. Intellectual property rights create special challenges for competition policy and some problems have … setbacks, reflecting both the difficulties in ensuring competition in such industries and policy mistakes.<P>Concurrence sur …

-of-return regulation is generally thought to result in overinvestment, while incentive regulation is believed to entail underinvestment …. Yet, previous empirical work has generally found that the introduction of incentive regulation has not systematically …-of-return regulation because investment decisions (what can be included in the rate base) are usually evaluated in a discretionary manner …

high inflation in this sector. Both the OECD product market regulation study and the European Commission study on internal …

economy will be able to cope with long-term challenges; in telecommunications markets, concerns have been mounting regarding … télécommunications, le niveau élevé des prix et la lenteur du déploiement du réseau à large bande suscitent des préoccupations …