This background note considers how competition contributes to lower inflation, despite its unsuitability as a short …-term anti-inflationary tool. It explains why competition is important for optimal inflation and summarises some of the empirical … evidence of this relationship. It then considers how inflation affects competition, for example by creating conditions for …

The OECD’s dataset on socio-demographic information accompanying the distributional information presents socio … distributional information on household income, consumption and saving. For the income quintiles, this concerns breakdowns of … education level. For the breakdowns according to household type and main source of income, it only concerns information on the …

The breakdown of transactions and positions by counterpart sector enriches the information as included in the financial …

focus on five key elements: i) information gathering process, ii) exchange of information, iii) confidentiality of the … information received; iv) statistics on the exchanges of rulings; and v) transparency on certain aspect of intellectual property …