. 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 intervention. Strengthening competition requires upgrading competition policy …

Empirical work shows that competition is important for promoting economic growth. However, in Japan the promotion of … competition has long been compromised by ministerial guidance and exemptions from the competition law. Thus, the level and growth … Japanese economy had difficulty in coming out of the quasi-stagnation of the past decade. Recognising that gains from more pro-competition …

The strength of product market competition plays an important role in economic growth as it affects economic efficiency … market competition and economic performance in the European Union. The Community’s competition rules, which apply whenever …’s Directorate General for Competition, and complement national competition legislation. Reforms have been adopted recently to …

endemically weak domestic competition, though the country’s relatively low productivity among domestic business likely signals … some sheltering from international competition. The generally healthy level of competition is partly because competition … proceed via the competition authority. And, it is suggested that sanctions against individuals in hard-core cartel cases are …

This paper examines the strength of product market competition and economic performance in Canada and discusses way in … which the institutional framework governing competition policy could be improved. Competitive forces are comparatively … strong and administrative and economic regulations inhibiting competition are amongst the lowest in the OECD countries …

This paper assesses what role product market competition and regulatory reforms may have played in the performance of … regulations inhibiting competition and barriers to trade amongst the lowest in the OECD. Nevertheless, there is scope for … improvement and the recent overhaul of competition legislation should help to further promote competition. Much progress has been …

This paper assesses what role product market competition and reforms may have played in the performance of the Dutch …. Competition in product markets has been strengthened through the creation of a competition authority (NMa) and the Competition … competition, by reducing barriers to business start-ups and the expansion of small businesses, as well as lowering business costs …

ordoliberal thought which has had a strong impact on EU competition policy and law. Outside Germany, ordoliberal thought is often … structure, efficiency (consumer welfare) as the result of competition rather than of an individual entrepreneurial market …