product or labour market regulation fail to measure structural reform as they focus on cross-country comparisons rather than … reform pressures suggests that measures of policy activity are not providing accurate information. In fact, indicators of … on progress with reform over time. I use the novel EU Semester approach recommending EU Member States to implement …

regulation for some goods. I provide sufficient conditions for deregulation, i.e. a general reduction in price floors, to be …Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be … required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory …

regulation for some goods. I provide sufficient conditions for deregulation, i.e. a general reduction in price floors, to be …Economists recommend to partly redistribute gains to losers from a structural reform, which in many cases may be … required for making the reform politically viable. However, taxation is distortionary. Then, it is unclear that compensatory …