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 …

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

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

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

also increase barriers to entry and distort competition. If stringent environmental policies can be designed in a way that … model. This paper reports evidence on selected competition-relevant aspects of environmental policy design from a cross …) friendly to competition.<P>Les indicateurs des charges économiques inhérentes à la conception des politiques environnementales …

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 …

enhance product-market competition, improve innovation efforts and ameliorate the quality of education, which are key to …

Russia in 2003 embarked on the restructuring of its electricity sector. The reform is intended to introduce competition … will encourage both investment in new capacity and greater efficiency of both production and consumption. The overall … characterised by real competition based on economically meaningful prices. There are two dangers here. The first is that private …

slower growth rates. Competition often appears to be hindered by protection of incumbents. Reforming and deregulating the …