This paper reviews the current empirical literature on competition and market structure of Philippine industries. It … shows that weak competition is one of the fundamental factors that explain limited growth, productivity, and employment in …, while necessary, are not sufficient to foster effective competition. The success of these reforms depends on the creation of …

market was liberalised. A number of reform challenges remain, however, in the areas of privatisation, regulation and … competition. This paper proposes that the remaining distribution companies be privatised with a view to raising the level of cash … regulator, and modified regulatory rules to improve risk allocations and strengthen incentives. On competition, the paper …

This paper reviews recent studies on the links between competition, innovation and productivity growth in the long run …. From a long-run perspective, one can see that gains from competition-enhancing regulatory reform are likely to exceed … static gains observed in the short run since firms will continue to innovate in ways they would not have under regulation. By …

introduction of competition and improved quality of regulations, which together condition the speed of technology migration, the …

power industry there is scope for all three. The current remedies proposed for this problem are competition and …

The main objective of this article is to analyze the economic fundamentals of an asymmetric regulation, as the one in … place in local telephony in Chile, and to discuss the main effects on market competition of different regulatory changes … that has been discussed in the Chilean case. The Chilean telecommunication regulation is asymmetric because there are some …

in privatisation, as well as the development of economic regulation. For the reasons outlined above, we will explore the …