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on competition, and therefore on business dynamism, productivity and ultimately well-being. A recent update of the OECD …. Regulatory reform can improve consumer welfare by boosting competition and thus lowering prices of key goods and services, which … competition will also allow higher wages. Reducing barriers to entry can facilitate firm creation, boosting investment and jobs. …
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call for stiffer competition. The development of the financial markets has also been adversely affected by the de facto …
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to the state-of-the-art electronic payments system would increase competition, reduce transactions costs and ensure …
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This report presents new evidence on industry concentration trends in Europe and in North America. It uses two novel data sources: representative firm-level concentration measures from the OECD MultiProd project, and business-group-level concentration measures using matched...
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This paper provides new evidence on the main characteristics of laggard firms - firms in the bottom 40% of the productivity distribution - and their potential for productivity growth. It finds that laggards are on average younger and smaller than more productive firms, and matter for aggregate...
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