The OECD Growth Study and other empirical work have shown that the strength of competition in product markets plays an … sense. More intense competition is likely to encourage stronger efforts of managers to improve efficiency and induce higher … economic reforms. Attention is then turned to indicators of product market competition to gauge the strength of competitive …

the past three decades. The indicators focus on regulations that affect competitive pressures in areas where competition … of competition and economic performance.<P>Régulation des services dans les pays de l'OCDE : évaluation et traits …

improving in key sectors, partly thanks to greater private investment, bottlenecks endure and efforts to intensify competition …

pressures. The government has recently introduced several reforms to strengthen the competition policy framework. Nevertheless …. The powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced. Its effective degree of independence, substantially … direction are needed. In the retail sector competition-restricting regulations still protect existing companies against new …

telecommunications industry to investigate the effects of entry liberalisation and privatisation on productivity, prices and quality of … differences in economic structure, panel data estimates show that prospective competition (as proxied by the number of years … remaining to liberalisation) and effective competition (as proxied by the share of new entrants or by the number of competitors …

markets. Focusing on subsets of OECD countries, we look at the implications of product market competition for industry wages …

to increasing competition in liberalised markets. It focuses on four topics that dominate the debate over regulatory …

regulation can encourage competition, efficiency and investment in those segments of the service industries where non …

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 …

This paper discusses the current state of product market competition in Iceland, including the legal and regulatory … competition law since the early 1990s have strengthened competitive forces in many sectors of the economy, and proposed amendments … to that law would further improve market surveillance. The changes in the regulatory framework for telecommunications …