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Over the past decade, the growth potential of the Hungarian economy has declined substantially. Trend productivity has … medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and entrepreneurship, and limited competition in major non-tradable sectors, problems which … have sometimes become worse in recent years. Under these conditions, many SMEs find it hard to leave semi-informality and …
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New Zealand’s productivity level remains markedly below the OECD frontier. Insufficient competition is an important …
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hinder or prevent the cross-border provision of services by German and Dutch SMEs in selected border regions. The respondents … often considered necessary. A not insignificant proportion of SMEs in both countries do not comply with individual …
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Appropriately designed Product Market Regulation (PMR) is essential to enhance productivity, boost economic growth and …
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Reviews the various articles of the IIR2001, and lays out the theme of having the appropriate market structure and regulation in various sectors of physical infrastructure including electricity, telecom, water and sewage, transportation and energy
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affect employment, profitability, productivity and innovation; however, this is more so the case for downstream industries or …
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, negatively affecting productivity and growth. Some of these barriers are necessary, but others may go beyond what is needed to …
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Over the past decade, France has substantially eased the burden of anti-competitive regulations and effectively enforced competition law against anti-competitive practices. Various sectors have been opened up more widely to competition, and the powers of the Competition Authority have been...
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In this essay we evaluate the impact of the revolution that has occurred in antitrust and in particular the growing role played by economic analysis. Section II describes exactly what we think that revolution was. There were actually two revolutions. The first was the use by economists and other...
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This paper evaluates the recent literature claiming that the US economy has generally become less competitive causing the US economy to perform poorly and that lax antitrust policy is one important reason for the decline in economic performance. Although there certainly are empirical facts...
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