the United States, is that the heavy regulation of Europe reduces its growth. Using newly assembled data on regulation in … several sectors of many OECD countries, we provide substantial and robust evidence that various measures of regulation in the … product market, concerning in particular entry barriers, are negatively related to investment. The implications of our …

regulation can encourage competition, efficiency and investment in those segments of the service industries where non …The paper looks at patterns of regulation in service industries and explores their implications for service performance …. Focusing on restrictions to market mechanisms, a map of the state of service regulation in OECD countries is provided, based on …

This paper analyses how different tax policies can affect investment and productivity. To address this question the … differently by taxation. Investment is shown to respond negatively to an increase in the corporate tax rate and a decrease in …

discusses the main policy issues raised by the need to adapt the regulation of the noncompetitive segments of these industries …

Much scope remains to make regulation of product markets more conducive to competition ? notwithstanding progress in … objectives in energy market regulation could be achieved at lower cost. In the telecommunications industry, competition in the … local loop can be strengthened. Regulation of the liberal professions is among the most restrictive in the OECD. Entry …

In this paper the recently updated product market regulation (PMR) indicators are extended to a larger set of countries … OECD countries and analyses the link between regulation and growth. On average, regulation is more restrictive of … regulatory processes. Furthermore, growth regressions provide evidence that less restrictive product market regulation is …