also increase barriers to entry and distort competition. If stringent environmental policies can be designed in a way that … model. This paper reports evidence on selected competition-relevant aspects of environmental policy design from a cross … regulation indicators (PMR). Secondly, though it is not yet possible to evaluate the economic impact of anti-competitive aspects …

Product market regulation on average is Slovenia does not appear particularly stringent, but heavy state involvement … résultent des règles de conduite imposées par les autorités de régulation, ainsi que celles qui découlent de facteurs tels les …

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 …-sector interests will secure strategic holdings that allow them to exercise market power or even local monopoly power. The ... La …

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 …

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 …-sector interests will secure strategic holdings that allow them to exercise market power or even local monopoly power. The ... …

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 …