consistent with a neo-Schumpeterian view of trade and regulation. Close to the technology frontier, import competition has a … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are … substantially. However, far from the frontier, neither import competition nor its interaction with domestic regulation has a …

foreign trade and direct investment regimes. In some network sectors, recent regulatory changes have significantly improved … environment in Russia supports competition and to draw attention to the areas where further reform efforts would pay dividends … the scope for competition. However, ongoing work needs to focus on separating competitive and monopoly market segments and …

be possible without profound regulatory reforms of minimum wages, severance payments, social security contributions and … flexible job contracts. These reforms have been discussed for a long time, but political obstacles prevented implementing them …. Resolving this deadlock calls for advancing an integrated strategy of labour reforms and formalisation via experimenting with …

This paper investigates the role played by deregulation on firms’ investment decisions in infrastructure sectors. The … entry, public ownership, vertical unbundling and the existence of an independent regulator with firm level investment … behaviour. We find that the impact of regulation on investment is both sector and firm specific. A reduction in the degree of …

-competitive reforms tend to increase both investment and multifactor productivity and, through both these channels, they can lead to …This paper assesses the implications of past and ongoing reforms in OECD product markets for the labour productivity … approaches and their drawbacks. We then use these results to gauge the likely effect of further reforms. We distinguish effects …

This paper discusses the current state of product market competition in Iceland, including the legal and regulatory … competition law since the early 1990s have strengthened competitive forces in many sectors of the economy, and proposed amendments … have helped vigorous competition to develop in most segments, but there remain problems in pricing of access to the local …

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 … a laggard, at least in the electricity sector. Reforms in the 1990s have entailed some positive results but also some …

the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over …

sector regulators in network industries and the powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced, as the reform …