This document (of 362 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable exploring the regulatory and competition issues arising in the course of deregulation of the postal sector. The roundtable was held at the OECD in February 1999. The publication includes submissions from 16 OECD member...

This document (of 147 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on competition issues relating to government procurement, held at the OECD in June 1998. The publication includes submissions from 12 OECD member countries describing the regulatory regime for procurement and the...

This document (of 271 pages) contains the proceedings of a one-day roundtable on competition and regulation issues in the insurance industry, held at the OECD in June 1998. The publication includes submissions from 13 OECD member countries which set out in detail the regulatory regime and the...

The legal origins literature overlooks a key area of corporate governance - the governance of state-owned enterprises (“SOEs”). There are key theoretical differences between SOEs and publicly-traded corporations. In comparing the differences of both internal and external controls of SOEs,...

This paper empirically investigates the effectiveness of competition policy by estimating its impact on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth for 22 industries in 12 OECD countries over the period 1995-2005. We find a robust positive and significant effect of competition policy as measured by...

Antitrust policy involves not just the regulation of anti-competitive behavior, but also an important deterrence effect. Neither scholars nor policymakers have fully researched the deterrence effects of merger policy tools, as they have been unable to empirically measure these effects. We...