on competition, and therefore on business dynamism, productivity and ultimately well-being. A recent update of the OECD …’s Product Market Regulation indicator for Costa Rica shows that there is ample room to improve regulations. Costa Rica … in turn increases the purchasing power of low-income households and reduces poverty. By raising productivity, stronger …

Using data from 11 EU countries, the paper investigates the impact of scale economies on labour productivity in … of the market or to national regulation characteristics. The econometric analysis is based on a production function model … persons have a significantly lower level of labour productivity than the rest of the business-services industry. Two factors …

European business services has witnessed about two decades of virtual productivity stagnation. The paper investigates … indicator for the effectiveness of market selection. We use a DEA method to construct the productivity frontier by sub … lack of import penetration. The results suggest that policy reform and more market openness will have positive productivity …

regulation in various sectors of physical infrastructure including electricity, telecom, water and sewage, transportation and …

the level of regulation in home or export country matters, but also the inter-country differences in regulation for … of recent EU proposals for the services market. It shows that making more use of mutual recognition in regulation could …

This paper presents the latest edition of the OECD indicators of product market regulation (PMR), which measure …, modifications in the economic and business environment, and changes in the practice of regulation. The results show that most OECD …

traditional forms of regulation. Continued application of these outmoded regulatory regimes is likely to harm consumers. We argue … that the Internet, and the rapid growth of the sharing economy, alleviates the need for much of this top-down regulation … dramatically — or when new technology or competition alleviates the need for regulation — then public policy should evolve and …