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 …

This paper describes trends in product market regulation in OECD countries over the period 1998 to 2003. The analysis … is based on summary indicators of product market regulation that measure the degree to which policies promote or inhibit …. Regulation has also become more homogenous across the OECD as countries with relatively restrictive policies have, in some areas …

1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that …

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 …

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 …

In this paper the recently updated product market regulation (PMR) indicators are extended to a larger set of countries … OECD countries and analyses the link between regulation and growth. On average, regulation is more restrictive of … regulatory processes. Furthermore, growth regressions provide evidence that less restrictive product market regulation is …

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 …

process. This suggest that remaining cross-country differences in product market regulation can partially explain the recent … multi-national enterprises. In both cases the effect of anticompetitive product market regulation is found to be negative …