This paper discusses ways of strengthening the competitive environment in order to help boost productivity performance … in various sectors of the Danish economy. It looks at a number of indicators of the strength of competition — including … competition legislation framework. The paper then focuses on the large public sector, which has been slow to open up to …

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 … of productivity have been low in many domestically oriented sectors and consumer welfare has suffered under high prices …

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 …

sheltered service industries. Restrictions on competition reduce productivity growth and hinder job creation in regulated …. Available cross-country evidence suggests that enhancing competition is an important means to improve economic performance …. France is catching up with best practice in competition policy reform. However, other policy considerations often hamper the …

Publication productivity, as measured by the number of papers, has been regarded as one of the main indicators of … Wide Web in ASEAN countries is still unclear. The main intention of this study was to identify publication productivity … productivity. Moreover, a positive and significant relationship was observed between indices, GDP and internet usage for these …

Poland’s productivity has grown strongly over the past decade, and efforts to reduce the regulatory burden have been … sector regulators in network industries and the powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced, as the reform …

This paper discusses the current state of product market competition in Iceland, including the legal and regulatory … competition law since the early 1990s have strengthened competitive forces in many sectors of the economy, and proposed amendments … have helped vigorous competition to develop in most segments, but there remain problems in pricing of access to the local …

domestic product adoption, closer firms provide this supply. Potential costs imply measures of Revenue and Competition …