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Poland has significantly upgraded its infrastructure network over the past decade. However, bottlenecks still weigh on productivity growth and environmental and health outcomes. The EU 2014-20 programming period is an opportunity to improve the management of infrastructure investment. In the...
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on competition, and therefore on business dynamism, productivity and ultimately well-being. A recent update of the OECD …. Regulatory reform can improve consumer welfare by boosting competition and thus lowering prices of key goods and services, which … competition will also allow higher wages. Reducing barriers to entry can facilitate firm creation, boosting investment and jobs. …
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years. One measure to enhance overall efficiency would be to strengthen competition on the domestic market to drive future … horizon. This paper focuses on increasing competition in network sectors, including energy, telecommunication services and …. Competition could also be increased by lowering barriers to interprovincial trade and the movement of labour, which act to …
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Latvia’s productivity growth is held back by weak innovation and inefficient resource allocation. The shortage of skilled workers which constrains innovation and the adoption of digital technologies must be addressed through further alignment of vocational and tertiary education with labour...
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sector regulators in network industries and the powers of the Competition Authority can still be enhanced, as the reform …
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diminish its access to global markets, the scale and efficiency of domestic businesses, the level of competition, and the … planning and infrastructure provision, enhancing competition and increasing investment in innovation and intangibles. This …
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rate competition and increases the banks price setting power as shown in Schliephake and Kirstein (2013). This paper … the enhanced price setting power can reverse the net effect that capital requirements have under perfect competition. …
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We examine a game of competition with access provision in which service quality is endogenously determined through … infrastructure upgrades with spillovers. There are two types of equilibria in the free competition regime. In particular, voluntary …
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This paper develops an analytical framework to identify the policies relevant for firm exit and the channels through which they shape aggregate productivity growth. A range of potentially relevant policies are identified, spanning insolvency regimes, regulations affecting product, labour and...
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