Vertical mergers are increasingly becoming a focus of attention, due to a number of recent high-profile cases in the technology, media and telecom (TMT) sector. Evidence suggests that vertical mergers are generally pro-competitive, as they are driven by efficiency-enhancing motives such as...

The OECD Competition Committee debated competition issues in vertical relations for gasoline retailing in October 2008. This document includes an executive summary and the documents from the meeting: an analytical note by the OECD, written submissions from Australia, Canada, Germany, Hungary,...

The OECD Competition Committee debated vertical mergers in February 2007. This document includes an executive summary and the documents from the meeting: an analytical note by the OECD, written submissions from Brazil, the Czech Republic, Denmark, the European Commission, Finland, France,...

This paper provides a brief overview of the pro- and anti-competitive effects of vertical restraints as identified in the literature and case practice and discusses how pro-competitive effects or efficiencies are analysed and assessed within different legal and economic assessment frameworks....

Nurses are defined as all the "practising" nurses providing direct health services to patients, including self-employed nurses. However, for some countries (France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Turkey and the United States), due to lack of comparable data, the figures...

This indicator presents the number of nursing graduates in a given year. In response to concerns about current or anticipated shortages of nurses, many OECD countries have taken steps in recent years to expand the number of students in nursing education programmes. Increasing investment in...