This paper uses the OECD’s indicators of product market regulation (PMR) to assess the extent to which the regulatory … restrictive, which provides considerable scope for reaping gains from bringing regulation into line with international best …

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 …

, distance, contiguity, free trade areas and language, this analysis mainly focuses on the role of product market regulation … broad reform package that would align Product Market Regulation (PMR) indicators to the average of the top half of the best …%. This analysis also makes use of subcomponents of the PMR indicator (by field of regulation) and the OECD Energy, Transport …

This paper is making use of the OECD product market regulation (PMR) database to measure the heterogeneity of product … market regulation across countries for the whole economy, for the main subcomponents of the PMR indicator and for the …

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 …

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 …

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 … regulation can encourage competition, efficiency and investment in those segments of the service industries where non …