La stratégie de localisation des entreprises commerciales vis-à-vis des concurrents est théoriquement simple : afin de ne pas accroître l’intensité concurrentielle, il est nécessaire de se différencier. La différenciation peut passer par les produits ou services. Dans ce cas, la...

The paper uses a data base on regulation, market structure and performance in the air passenger transportation industry, to analyse the links among liberalisation, private ownership, competition, efficiency and airfares at national and route levels. Covering the 1996-97 travel season, 21...

This paper examines problems of entry, exit and competition in Ukrainian product markets. It finds that Ukraine still has too little of all three, and that exit mechanisms, in particular, function poorly. Since impediments to entry and exit are largely the product of excessive and ill...

This paper discusses ways of strengthening the competitive environment in order to help boost productivity performance in various sectors of the Danish economy. It looks at a number of indicators of the strength of competition — including price levels, industrial concentration and product...

Vigorous product market competition plays a central role in bolstering productivity growth. Sweden has strengthened competition legislation and deregulated a number of sectors, including electricity, telecommunications and parts of transport, over the past 10 to 15 years. This paper examines the...

This paper takes advantage of the ban on advertising directed at children in the province of Quebec to study the effect of advertising in the children's breakfast cereal industry. Advertising is viewed alternatively as anti-competitive, if it increases brand loyalty, or as pro-competitive, if it...

La stratégie de localisation des entreprises commerciales vis-à-vis des concurrents est théoriquement simple : afin de ne pas accroître l’intensité concurrentielle, il est nécessaire de se différencier. La différenciation peut passer par les produits ou services. Dans ce cas, la...

Compte tenu du risque d’affaiblissement de la croissance potentielle et de la mobilisation déjà très forte des politiques conjoncturelles après la crise financière, les politiques structurelles susceptibles de dynamiser la croissance sont au centre des débats de politique économique.

In the 16 years since the OECD began conducting Economic Surveys of the Russian Federation, a great many policy recommendations relating to structural reform and framework conditions have been made. This paper, expanding on Annex 1.A1 in the 2011 OECD Economic Survey of the Russian Federation,...

Poland’s productivity has grown strongly over the past decade, and efforts to reduce the regulatory burden have been significant. Despite impressive progress, product market regulation remains more burdensome than in most OECD countries, partly due to the importance of red tape and the level...