Long abstract

About Statistics Publications & Documents Information by Country

The OECD indicators of Product Market Regulation (PMR) are a comprehensive and internationally-comparable set of indicators that measure the degree to which policies promote or inhibit competition in areas of the product market where competition is viable. They measure the regulatory and market environments in OECD countries in (or around) 1998 and 2003 and are consistent across time.
The PMR indicators summarise a large set of formal rules and regulations that have a bearing on competition in OECD countries. They are economy-wide indicators of regulation and cover the following areas:
• state control of business enterprises;
• legal and administrative barriers to entrepreneurship;
• barriers to international trade and investment.