Russia in 2003 embarked on the restructuring of its electricity sector. The reform is intended to introduce competition … characterised by real competition based on economically meaningful prices. There are two dangers here. The first is that private …

The paper uses a data base on regulation, market structure and performance in the air passenger transportation industry …, to analyse the links among liberalisation, private ownership, competition, efficiency and airfares at national and route …

new set of quantitative indicators of regulation, we show that the cross-country variation of regulatory settings has … increased in recent years, despite extensive liberalisation and privatisation in the OECD area. We then look at the regulation …-country variance. We find evidence that reforms promoting private governance and competition (where these are viable) tend to boost …

The paper uses an original international database on regulation, market structure and performance in the … 1991-1997 period. The data on regulation and market structure is analysed by means of factor analysis techniques in order … differences in economic structure, panel data estimates show that prospective competition (as proxied by the number of years …

discusses the main policy issues raised by the need to adapt the regulation of the noncompetitive segments of these industries … to increasing competition in liberalised markets. It focuses on four topics that dominate the debate over regulatory …

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 …

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 …