The paper looks at patterns of regulation in service industries and explores their implications for service performance …. Focusing on restrictions to market mechanisms, a map of the state of service regulation in OECD countries is provided, based on … regulation can encourage competition, efficiency and investment in those segments of the service industries where non …

Product market regulation in the non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries: measurement and highlights This paper … describes a new set of indicators that measure differences in the regulation of non-manufacturing sectors of OECD countries over … indicators and the patterns of product market regulation and regulatory reform that emerge from the analysis. The robustness of …

worker (age, sex, education and type of contract) in 12 European and North-American countries. The effects of regulation on … these wage premia are estimated by panel data regression techniques. We find that product market regulation restricting …-inefficiency ... Régulation des marchés des biens et rentes salariales en Europe et en Amérique du nord : Une analyse empirique<BR><P>Cette étude …

the United States, is that the heavy regulation of Europe reduces its growth. Using newly assembled data on regulation in … several sectors of many OECD countries, we provide substantial and robust evidence that various measures of regulation in the … ... Régulation and investissement<BR><P>Une opinion largement diffuse met en relation le moindre taux de croissance des pays …

capital et sur le progrès technique en nous appuyant sur trois études qui analysent l’impact de la régulation anti …

new set of quantitative indicators of regulation, we show that the cross-country variation of regulatory settings has … increased in recent years, despite extensive liberalisation and privatisation in the OECD area. We then look at the regulation … the gains are greater the further a given country is from the technology leader, suggesting that regulation limiting …