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Deconstructing Canada's Housing Markets: Finance, Affordability and Urban Sprawl
Cheung, Calista - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2014
House prices have increased significantly in Canada over the past decade, driving household debt and residential construction activity to historical highs. Although macro-prudential tightening has slowed the pace of household borrowing in the last few years, house prices have continued to trend...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011276860
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Strengthening Regulation in Chile : The Case of Network Industries
Galetovic, Alexander - 2005
recurrent cuts in shipments of natural gas from Argentina since 2004 have put additional strain on regulation in the electricity … improvements in the regulation of telecoms would do much to further improve the business climate. The governance of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012442893
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in New Zealand
Mourougane, Annabelle - 2005
The paper examines the current state of competition in a number of sectors that are important for the economy. Because of the country’s small size and isolation, the analysis focuses on barriers to entry, investment and external trade, rather than some standard indicators of competition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444441
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Australia
Ziegelschmidt, Helmut; Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; … - 2005
The OECD Growth Study and other empirical work have shown that the strength of competition in product markets plays an important role in the economic growth process as well as contributing to a more efficient allocation of resources in a static sense. More intense competition is likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445025
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Strengthening Regulation in Chile: The Case of Network Industries
Galetovic, Alexander; Mello, Luiz de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
recurrent cuts in shipments of natural gas from Argentina since 2004 have put additional strain on regulation in the electricity … improvements in the regulation of telecoms would do much to further improve the business climate. The governance of public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045675
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Boosting Growth Through Greater Competition in Denmark
Jorgensen, Martin - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005
price levels, industrial concentration and product market regulation — and it discusses the appropriateness of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045968
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Sweden
Roseveare, Deborah; Jorgensen, Martin; Goranson, Lennart - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004
Vigorous product market competition plays a central role in bolstering productivity growth. Sweden has strengthened competition legislation and deregulated a number of sectors, including electricity, telecommunications and parts of transport, over the past 10 to 15 years. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005046218
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Iceland
Laubach, Thomas - 2005
This paper discusses the current state of product market competition in Iceland, including the legal and regulatory framework, and suggests directions for further improvement. Given the size of the economy, efficiency considerations dictate high concentration in many markets, and preventing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012442998
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Regulation, Productivity and Growth : OECD Evidence
Nicoletti, Giuseppe - 2003
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 … the gains are greater the further a given country is from the technology leader, suggesting that regulation limiting ... …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443921
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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in the United States
Suppanz, Hannes - 2004
Regulatory reform efforts in a broad range of industries have resulted in increased importance of competitive forces as a means to allocate resources and improve economic efficiency. A number of indicators suggest that such forces have been stronger in the United States than in most other OECD...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444089