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regulatory barriers to competition in non-manufacturing sectors on all industries, through intermediate inputs. The paper …. They relate to the composition of the indicator, how the slow-moving or time-invariant retail and professional services … regulation data are integrated with the annual energy, transport and communication regulation (ETCR) indicator and what sector …
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describes a new set of indicators that measure differences in the regulation of non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries over … the past three decades. The indicators focus on regulations that affect competitive pressures in areas where competition … indicators and the patterns of product market regulation and regulatory reform that emerge from the analysis. The robustness of …
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regulation in various sectors of physical infrastructure including electricity, telecom, water and sewage, transportation and …
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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 … and the slow introduction of new goods and services. This misallocation of resources contributes to explaining why the …
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The United Kingdom (UK) has spent less on infrastructure compared to other OECD countries over the past three decades. The perceived quality of UK infrastructure assets is close to the OECD average but lower than in other G7 countries. Capacity constraints have emerged in some sectors, such as...
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improving in key sectors, partly thanks to greater private investment, bottlenecks endure and efforts to intensify competition …'etranglement demeurent et il faudra s'efforcer d'intensifier la concurrence et de maintenir le dynamisme des investissements. Des reformes du …
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, while we highlight the major points concerning competition regulation, which are related to the effort for the establishment … and defines the application of European competition law to this framework of restructuring. We firstly present the … law - the general framework of the application of competition rules to energy market, under a scope of combination of …
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One important determinant of the speed and success of transition will be the efficiency of transformation and development of the infrastructure sectors. A great deal of attention has been paid to issues such as privatisation, restructuring, user prices, and terms of access in these sectors,...
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Independent regulatory authorities are a basic prerequisite for a successful liberalization process. However, contrary to what is expected, both graphical analyses and OLS regressions for a small sample of electricity and gas regulators operating in 16 European countries reveal a negative...
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the goals of European Competition Law. In other words it is a delimitated restructuring of energy markets which is subject …. We note that this paper constitutes a part of a broader research paper on the interaction between European Competition … Law and Energy Market Regulation …
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