Measures to make the regulation of product markets more conducive to competition play a prominent role in the … discusses these measures and suggests further improvements. Notwithstanding significant reforms in recent years, competition law … competition-friendly is large in the network industries. While sector-specific regulators have been introduced, their independence …

This paper assesses what role product market competition and regulatory reforms may have played in the performance of … regulations inhibiting competition and barriers to trade amongst the lowest in the OECD. Nevertheless, there is scope for … improvement and the recent overhaul of competition legislation should help to further promote competition. Much progress has been …

This paper assesses what role product market competition and reforms may have played in the performance of the Dutch …. Competition in product markets has been strengthened through the creation of a competition authority (NMa) and the Competition … competition, by reducing barriers to business start-ups and the expansion of small businesses, as well as lowering business costs …

This paper examines the strength of product market competition and economic performance in Canada and discusses way in … which the institutional framework governing competition policy could be improved. Competitive forces are comparatively … strong and administrative and economic regulations inhibiting competition are amongst the lowest in the OECD countries …

Much scope remains to make regulation of product markets more conducive to competition ? notwithstanding progress in … recent years ? with substantial benefits for consumer welfare, productivity and employment. While the general competition … entrepreneurship and reduce the involvement of the government in business sector activities, notably through accelerated privatisation …

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 …

considerable and cross-country empirical evidence suggests that enhancing competition is an important means of achieving this …. Structural reforms to strengthen competition in the early 1990s did boost growth and were also ahead of similar developments in … the EU. However, indicators suggest that relatively weak competition remains in a number of sectors. Moreover, potential …

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 … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

setbacks, reflecting both the difficulties in ensuring competition in such industries and policy mistakes.<P>Concurrence sur … policies, a number of challenges remain. Although there are few sectors of the economy from which competition policy and law … competition enforcement. Intellectual property rights create special challenges for competition policy and some problems have …

Measures to make the regulation of product markets more conducive to competition play a prominent role in the … discusses these measures and suggests further improvements. Notwithstanding significant reforms in recent years, competition law … competition-friendly is large in the network industries. While sector-specific regulators have been introduced, their independence …