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Regulation, Industry Structure and Performance in the Electricity Supply Industry
Steiner, Faye - 2000
This paper seeks to assess the impact of liberalisation and privatisation on performance in the generation segment of the electricity supply industry. Regulatory indicators for a panel of 19 OECD countries over a 10 year time period were constructed to examine the influence of regulatory reform...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446021
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Restructuring Russia's Electricity Sector : Towards Effective Competition or Faux Liberalisation?
Tompson, William - 2004
Russia in 2003 embarked on the restructuring of its electricity sector. The reform is intended to introduce competition into electricity production and supply, leaving dispatch, transmission and distribution as regulated natural monopolies with non-discriminatory third-party access to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444056
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How Regulatory Reforms in Sweden have boosted Productivity
Erlandsen, Espen - 2007
, including deregulation of a wide range of product markets. In that way, Sweden took early action compared to other OECD … deregulation has delivered a considerable “productivity dividend”. Although significant progress therefore has been made, renewed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444481
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Product Market Regulation and Wage Premia in Europe and North America : An Empirical Investigation
Jean, Sébastien - 2002
worker (age, sex, education and type of contract) in 12 European and North-American countries. The effects of regulation on … these wage premia are estimated by panel data regression techniques. We find that product market regulation restricting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012445912
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Regulation and Economic Performance : Product Market Reforms and Productivity in the OECD
Nicoletti, Giuseppe - 2005
This paper assesses the implications of past and ongoing reforms in OECD product markets for the labour productivity gap, a key component of cross-country differences in GDP per capita. After a brief review of the theoretical literature, we bring together the results obtained in some of our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012446050
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Enhancing Brazil's Regulatory Framework for Network Industries : The Case of Electricity, Oil and Gas, and Water and Sanitation
de Almeida, Edmar - 2005
This paper assesses Brazil’s regulatory framework and agencies for several network industries (electricity, oil and gas, and water and sanitation). Private investment can be encouraged by tackling regulatory uncertainty in many areas. To this end, recent initiatives include a new regulatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012444125
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Reaping efficiency gains through product market reforms in China
Molnar, Margit - 2022
The impressive emergence of China’s economy is set to lose some momentum as the country catches up with more advanced economies and its rapid ageing also weighs on it. However, China can still reap the “reform dividend”, especially with measures to keep up the sustained growth of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013278668
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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, Market Structure and Performance in Air Passenger Transportation
Gönenç, Rauf - 2000
The paper uses a data base on regulation, market structure and performance in the air passenger transportation industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012443072
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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 ... …
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