Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of … competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken … competition and has left a legacy of government intervention. Strengthening competition requires upgrading competition policy …

competition is important for promoting economic growth. Recognising the benefits of competition, the government wants to introduce … regulatory reforms to stimulate economic growth. However, the promotion of competition has often conflicted with other policy … competition in a number of sectors, resulting in high prices, weak innovative activity and inefficient resource allocation …

considerable and cross-country empirical evidence suggests that enhancing competition is an important means of achieving this …. Structural reforms to strengthen competition in the early 1990s did boost growth and were also ahead of similar developments in … the EU. However, indicators suggest that relatively weak competition remains in a number of sectors. Moreover, potential …

We study competition in the German interurban bus industry two years after its liberalization in January 2013. In … of market power by incumbents – and derive several recommendations to secure effective competition in the industry. …

monopoly basis, competition does play a key role on routes with a sufficiently large base of (potential) customers. From a … 24 years old and the presence of intermodal competition by intercity railway services. …

This document (of 147 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on competition issues relating to … describing the regulatory regime for procurement and the competition policy issues which have arisen. The document also includes … a background paper prepared by the OECD secretariat discussing why competition issues arise in procurement, raising the …

towards international airline competition. While the policies of the 1980s and 90s were designed to maximize industry … have sought to reduce competition and entrench the position of the largest carriers. These policies have already led to the … large legacy airlines and government officials could dramatically restructure international airline competition in favor of …