The paper introduces insights into a methodology for developing regulation applicable to networked industries … restructuring of networked utilities in transition economies, discuss the regulation experiences that followed the implementation of … this process, and chart a method in which to establish growth-enabling liberalization through regulation. By evaluating the …

This paper assesses the implications of past and ongoing reforms in OECD product markets for the labour productivity …) and multi-factor productivity. We focus on the effects of policies aimed at strengthening private governance (e.g. through …-competitive reforms tend to increase both investment and multifactor productivity and, through both these channels, they can lead to …

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 … multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of its cross …

, lining up with the increasing dispersion in growth. The authors then investigate empirically the regulation-growth link using … focusing on multifactor productivity (MFP), which plays a crucial role in GDP growth and accounts for a significant share of … its cross-country variance. Regressing MFP on both economywide indicators of regulation and privatization and industry …

Poland’s productivity has grown strongly over the past decade, and efforts to reduce the regulatory burden have been … significant. Despite impressive progress, product market regulation remains more burdensome than in most OECD countries, partly …

-level data from Germany and the United Kingdom. The empirical strategies in all analyses attempt to establish causal …

stronger in the United States than in most other OECD countries for some time. This has contributed to sizeable productivity …

productivity in the generation segment of the industry. Controlling explicitly for sources of price-heterogeneity across firms and …