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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Australia

Ziegelschmidt, Helmut; Koutsogeorgopoulou, Vassiliki; … - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

The OECD Growth Study and other empirical work have shown that the strength of competition in product markets plays an important role in the economic growth process as well as contributing to a more efficient allocation of resources in a static sense. More intense competition is likely to...

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Chapter 11. Technological change and the Environment

Jaffe, Adam B.; Newell, Richard G.; Stavins, Robert N. - In: Handbook of environmental economics : volume 1, …, (pp. 461-516). 2003

Environmental policy discussions increasingly focus on issues related to technological change. This is partly because the environmental consequences of social activity are frequently affected by the rate and direction of technological change, and partly because environmental policy interventions...

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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in New Zealand

Mourougane, Annabelle; Wise, Michael - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

The paper examines the current state of competition in a number of sectors that are important for the economy. Because of the country’s small size and isolation, the analysis focuses on barriers to entry, investment and external trade, rather than some standard indicators of competition...

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Strengthening Regulation in Chile: The Case of Network Industries

Galetovic, Alexander; Mello, Luiz de - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

les exportations de gaz naturel de l'Argentine depuis 2004 ont ajouté une contrainte sur la réglementation du secteur d … réformes de la réglementation dans trois industries de réseau (électricité, gaz et télécommunication), dans lesquelles plus de …

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Enhancing the Productivity of the Service Sector in Japan

Jones, Randall S.; Yoon, Taesik - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008

Labour productivity growth in the service sector, which accounts for 70% of Japan’s economic output and employment, has slowed markedly in recent years in contrast to manufacturing. The disappointing performance is associated with weak competition in the service sector resulting from strict...

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Product Market Competition and Economic Performance in Korea

Baek, Yongchun; Jones, Randall S.; Wise, Michael - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2004

Maintaining rapid economic growth depends increasingly on productivity gains, particularly in the service sector. Competition has an important role to play in achieving such gains. However, Korea’s development strategy has tended to weaken competition and has left a legacy of government...

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Enhancing Brazil's Regulatory Framework for Network Industries: The Case of Electricity, Oil and Gas, and Water and Sanitation

Almeida, Edmar Fagundes de; Mulder, Nanno - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2005

réglementaire des industries de réseau au Brésil : Le cas de l'électricité, du pétrole et du gaz, et de l'eau et de l …, pétrole et gaz, eau et assainissement). L’investissement privé pourrait être encouragé en réduisant l … stade de sa mise en œuvre que la réforme dans ce domaine sera mise à l’épreuve. Pour ce qui est du gaz naturel, la position …

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The Economics of Renewable Energy

Heal, Geoffrey - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

Greater use of renewable energy is seen as a key component of any move to combat climate change, and is being aggressively promoted as such by the new U.S. administration and by other governments. Yet there is little economic analysis of renewable energy. This paper surveys what is written and...

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Shale Energy Shapes Global Energy Markets

Chojna, Janusz; Losoncz, Miklós; Suni, Paavo - In: National Institute Economic Review 226 (2013) 1, pp. 40-40

Unconventional resources of crude oil and natural gas â€“ shale energy â€“ increased significantly in the US in the early 2000s, triggered by the strong rise in the price of crude oil and technical advances in production. The US is a clear forerunner in the production of shale energy,...

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Electricity Regulation in India

Nair, S.K.N. - In: Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research 2 (2008) 1, pp. 87-144

This paper looks at the regulatory component of India's electricity reforms from four perspectives. Concerns about governance standards for the sector that set the context ofreforms are noted first, and the re-allocation of powers that reforms brought about is discussed with particular reference...

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