Product market competition and economic performance - EO72 ch. 6

OECD Economic Outlook No. 72, Chapter 6. This special chapter examines the channels through which competition aggregate economic performance.

Restructuring Public Utilities for Competition

This publication explores the nature and impact of rules which affect the structure of public utilities industries. It covers not only the theory behind different forms of separation but also practical experience in a wide variety of countries and sectors.

Sectoral Regulatory Reforms in Italy: Framework and Implications (Economics Department Working Paper 294)

This working paper discusses product market regulatory reforms in Italy over the past decade.

Recommendation concerning Structural Separation in Regulated Industries

Some regulated firms risk operating simultaneously in a non-competitive activity and a potentially competitive complementary activity. This Recommendation calls for carefully balancing the benefits and costs of structural measures against the benefits and costs of behavioural measures.

Regulatory reform in network industries: past experience and current issues, EO67 ch.4

Chapter 4 of the OECD Economic Outlook No. 67. This chapter summarises the main lessons to be drawn from recent experience building on a substantial body of analytical work.

Relationship between Regulators and Competition Authorities

The introduction of greater competition in regulated sectors has required establishing new regulators or seriously rethinking what existing regulators were doing, bringing to the fore important questions concerning the proper relationship between sector specific regulators and economy-wide competition agencies. On the one hand, competition agencies have a comparative advantage over regulators when it comes to ensuring that

Greek Public Enterprises: Challenges for Reform (Economics Department Working Paper 214)

This working paper suggests that a successful reform of public enterprises would improve productivity in key sectors of the Greek economy, and thus provide essential inputs at lower cost to the economy as a whole.

1998 - Recommendation on Effective Action against Hard Core Cartels

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Adopted on 25 March 1998, this Recommendation advises member countries to ensure that their competition laws effectively halt and deter hard core cartels by providing for effective sanctions and adequate enforcement procedures and institutions to detect and remedy hard core cartels.

Establishing financial discipline: experience with bankcruptcy legislation in Central and Eastern European countries

A major challenge of economic transition in central and eastern European countries is creating the institutional framework crucial to market operation. OECD Economic Studies No. 25.

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