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We address the role that deep, structural factors may have as determinants of Mexico's economic growth. We argue that Mexico's poor growth performance appears to be associated not only with shorter-run events such as the "lost decade" of the eighties, but also with supply-side features of the...
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Peru's national policy on productivity and competitiveness relies on the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) by the World Economic Forum. We analyze the subjective component of GCI and show that, in the labor market area, this index has been largely constructed with opinion data coming from a...
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This paper advances a dynamic rationale for competitiveness policy that focuses on an economy's ability to evolve in order to achieve high real incomes along with desired qualitative changes in the socio-economic system. It highlights that the ubiquitous 'rationalities of failure,' either of...
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This paper advances a dynamic rationale for competitiveness policy that focuses on an economy's ability to evolve in order to achieve high real incomes along with desired qualitative changes in the socio-economic system. It highlights that the ubiquitous rationalities of failure, either of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014343953
The United States federal government preempted anti-competitive state and municipal telegraph regulations when the 1866 Post Roads Act was enacted. The act granted a de facto national franchise to build and operate a telegraph system anywhere in the United States to any telegraph company...
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and competition with generics. The nature of demand for drugs, the identity of drugs brought to market, and the nature of … competition in the drug market over time are all shaped by regulation. Throughout much of the world, administrative regulation …, rather than competition policy, dominates efforts to afford consumers and governments adequate access to affordable drugs …
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boutique fuels and power, and allowing energy firms to restrict output and raise prices without fear of competition …. And it offers recommendations for how competition and energy regulators can work together to ensure that energy standards … do not undercut the aims of competition policies …
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This paper deals with access to the file in competition proceedings conducted by the European Commission for the …
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This document (of 351 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on regulation and competition issues … member countries describing in detail the regulatory regime for broadcasting and some of the competition policy issues which … broadcasting, approaches to regulation of broadcasting and highlighting the features of the industry which give rise to competition …
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In the last few years, U.S. telecoms policy has shifted from encouraging the sharing of existing networks to facilitating the deployment of advanced communications networks. Given the large capital expenditures required for these networks, there can be only a few of such networks. In light of...
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