also improving European competitiveness. Regulation is one of the main factors influencing competitiveness. This paper … countries from 1975 to 2007. Using the Stochastic Frontier Approach applied to the EU-KLEMS and OECD's Regulation Impact … Indicator database I found that, given the strong negative relationship between regulation and Technical Efficiency, which is …

The firms’ performance assessment for regulation requires estimating profit change and its drivers. This study …

MRP prices leading to substantial cost savings for the transmission system operators. -- Competition ; Frequency Control … ; Minute Reserve Power ; Regulation ; Productive Efficiency ; Welfare …

process. This suggest that remaining cross-country differences in product market regulation can partially explain the recent … multi-national enterprises. In both cases the effect of anticompetitive product market regulation is found to be negative …

process. This suggest that remaining cross-country differences in product market regulation can partially explain the recent … multi-national enterprises. In both cases the effect of anti-competitive product market regulation is found to be negative …

We incorporate arguments from the Tiebout model into the regulatory competition equilibrium and study cross …

the effects of upstream competition vary with distance to frontier on a panel of 15 OECD countries and 20 sectors over … 1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that …