Alesina, Alberto; Ardagna, Silvia; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; … - In: Journal of the European Economic Association 3 (2005) 4, pp. 791-825
We use newly assembled data on regulation in several sectors of many OECD countries to provide evidence that regulatory reform of product markets is associated with an increase in investment. A component of reform that plays a very important role is entry liberalization, but privatization also...