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This paper recasts current theories of regulatory or legislative competition. Building on the recent contribution of Buchanan and Yoon (2000), we consider alternative ways in which decision-making competence can be allocated among multiple legislative or administrative bodies. The general model...
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rates alone. This paper - a product of the Governance, Regulation, and Finance Group, World Bank Institute - is part of a …
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Over the past decade, France has substantially eased the burden of anti-competitive regulations and effectively enforced competition law against anti-competitive practices. Various sectors have been opened up more widely to competition, and the powers of the Competition Authority have been...
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This chapter from a Practical Guide to Transfer Pricing (Lexis) compares the U.S. Section 482 transfer pricing regulations to the OECD Transfer Pricing Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises and Tax Administrations as revised in 2010. Section 482's purpose is to ensure that taxpayers subject...
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This paper describes trends in product market regulation in OECD countries over the period 1998 to 2003. The analysis … is based on summary indicators of product market regulation that measure the degree to which policies promote or inhibit …. Regulation has also become more homogenous across the OECD as countries with relatively restrictive policies have, in some areas …
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1985-2007. Competitive pressures are proxied with sectoral product market regulation data. We find evidence that …
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This paper assesses the implications of past and ongoing reforms in OECD product markets for the labour productivity gap, a key component of cross-country differences in GDP per capita. After a brief review of the theoretical literature, we bring together the results obtained in some of our...
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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 …
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regulate entry into services. It notably distinguishes between different areas of regulation (administrative, qualification and … mobility requirements) and different types of regulation (licensing, a situation in which only supervisors require a license …
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Our study aims at assessing the actual importance of the two main channels usually contemplated in the literature through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in ICT. We thus precisely try to estimate what are the...
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