The strength of product market competition plays an important role in economic growth as it affects economic efficiency … market competition and economic performance in the European Union. The Community’s competition rules, which apply whenever …’s Directorate General for Competition, and complement national competition legislation. Reforms have been adopted recently to …

This paper examines the strength of product market competition and economic performance in Canada and discusses way in … which the institutional framework governing competition policy could be improved. Competitive forces are comparatively … strong and administrative and economic regulations inhibiting competition are amongst the lowest in the OECD countries …

Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of … competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

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. …

. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken … competition and has left a legacy of government intervention. Strengthening competition requires upgrading competition policy …

endemically weak domestic competition, though the country’s relatively low productivity among domestic business likely signals … some sheltering from international competition. The generally healthy level of competition is partly because competition … the competition authority. And, it is suggested that sanctions against individuals in hard-core cartel cases are …

competition is important for promoting economic growth. Recognising the benefits of competition, the government wants to introduce … regulatory reforms to stimulate economic growth. However, the promotion of competition has often conflicted with other policy … competition in a number of sectors, resulting in high prices, weak innovative activity and inefficient resource allocation …

The paper examines the current state of competition in a number of sectors that are important for the economy. Because …, rather than some standard indicators of competition stance. The competition law and institutions are generally well …

-border barriers to international trade, investment and competition have become more visible, a greater source of trade tensions and …, competition and investment, with few exceptions, take little account of international repercussions of non-border obstacles to the …, investment and competition policy interactions, and the scope for further international co-operation ... …

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 …