1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that …

draws heavily on a novel set of cross-country indicators of regulation in the product and labour markets assembled at the …

opportunities of firms. The detailed indicators refer to: economic regulation concerning market access, the use of inputs, output … choices, pricing and international trade and investment; administrative regulation (i.e. the interface between government …: while regulation for regular contracts has remained largely unchanged, many countries (especially in Europe) have eased …

the United States, is that the heavy regulation of the former reduces their 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 markets, concerning in particular entry barriers, are negatively related to investment. The policy …

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 …

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 …

. These allow accounting for both the direct effects of sectoral regulation on within-sector performance and the indirect … effects of sectoral regulation on firms in other sectors through intersectoral input-output linkages. Our econometric … at the global technological frontier and a catch up term. We assume that regulation can affect productivity growth both …

countries and industries and have evolved differently over time. We argue that differences in regulation have played an …

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 …