rights to provide services and restrictive regulation hindered competition in professional services. Growing awareness of the …Insufficient competition remains a major obstacle to growth in Italy. The main culprits include the institutional …, regulation was satisfactory only in some sectors. The excessive number of activities in which some operators enjoyed exclusive …

as a call for change in institutions and laws. There are no simple solutions, but Bessen and Meurer’s reform proposals …

, named “Institutions, Institutional Change and Economic Performance”. His central idea was focused on the retaining wall of …

This paper uses data from 20 OECD countries to investigate the impact of welfare state institutions (especially … empirically. It shows that the impact of welfare state institutions is not as clear-cut as the deregulationists' view suggests … welfare state institutions are manifold but the most important reason is the complexity of the impacts. There are many side …

institutional arrangements. We find amongst all the different measures of institutions the role of openness to international trade …, the State and political institutions are important factors of the global economic performance divergence. …