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

strengthen competition, entrepreneurship and innovation would go a long way toward enhancing it. Recent competition policy … procedures. Recent reforms to the innovation policy framework are welcome but the focus on sectoral priority clusters will need …

developing countries. This paper uses the 2008 vintage of the OECD indicators of product market regulation to assess the extent … indicate that, although competition is increasingly robust across most markets, the overall level of product market regulation … aspects of China’s regulatory framework and suggests a number of policy initiatives that would improve the extent to which …

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 …

Digital markets have raised a number of new competition challenges. Ex-post competition policy appears not to be able … policy-makers, that ex-ante regulatory policies are needed to avoid competition being stifled in these markets, with a …

Measures to make the regulation of product markets more conducive to competition play a prominent role in the … and its enforcement are still weaker than in other OECD countries. Scope for making regulation of product markets more … services. Progress in lowering the degree of protection in the proposed legislation on agricultural policy 2007-11 is modest …

which the institutional framework governing competition policy could be improved. Competitive forces are comparatively …. However, Canada’s regulated conduct doctrine exempts anti-competitive behaviour when required by regulation, and thus … regulation. Restrictions on internal trade also continue to exist, and implementation of the Agreement on Internal Trade is less …

economic policy. Reforms to promote product market competition in Japan should inter alia focus on strengthening the legal …