This paper explores the relationship between retailer buyer and seller power as to understand the dynamic process through which retailing is going and the direction it is heading and how it might be affected by regulation. It was prepared as background material for the session "Structural Issues...

This policy brief was developed by the Secretariat of the OECD Network of Economic Regulators (NER) and is based on examples of practice submitted by members of the NER. It reviews emergency measures taken by economic regulators during the COVID-19 pandemic to ensure continuity of services in...

Over the past decade, privatisation has increasingly taken place in the public utility sector. Technological advances and policy shifts have diminished the perception that public utilities are natural monopolies requiring state ownership. However, the privatisation of such state-owned monopolies...

Over the past decade, privatisation has increasingly taken place in the public utility sector. Technological advances and policy shifts have diminished the perception that public utilities are natural monopolies requiring state ownership. However, the privatisation of such state-owned monopolies...

The OECD Competition Committee debated retail banking in October 2006. This document includes an executive summary and the documents from the meeting: an analytical note by the OECD and written submissions from Brazil, Chinese Taipei, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the European Commission, France,...

The OECD Competition Committee debated regulation and competition issues in broadcasting in the light of convergence in October 1998. This document includes an executive summary, an analytical note by the OECD and submissions from Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, the European Commission,...

This paper gathers some of the most salient regulatory proposals and amendments to existing laws, which were available to the public as of August 2021 to compare and contrast them. It was prepared as background materials to a discussion on Ex Ante Regulation and Competition in Digital Markets...