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08-Aug-2008
Hansjörg Blöchliger
This paper presents a new set of institutional indicators that assess how sub-central governments harness market mechanisms such as tendering, outsourcing, user choice and competition, user fees and output-related funding when providing public services.
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08-Aug-2008
Nicola Brandt
Establishing stronger vertical separation between network access provision and potentially competitive services will be the main challenge for Germany going forward.
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21-Dec-2007
Stefan Ide, Jens Høj and Patrick Lenain
The Belgian financial landscape has been transformed over the past two decades and now consists of a relatively large, well-functioning and internationally integrated financial sector contributing directly and indirectly to long-term economic growth. Economics Department Working Paper No. 588.
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28-Sep-2007
Willi Leibfritz and Jürgen Janger
Enhancing growth through more innovation has become a priority for Austrian policy makers in line with European policies as laid down in the Lisbon Agenda. This paper discusses Austria’s innovation performance, its innovation policies, and general framework conditions for innovation and growth.
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19-Sep-2007
Jens Høj, Miguel Jimenez, Maria Maher, Giuseppe Nicoletti, and Michael Wise
Based on 18 country reviews performed over the 2003-2005 period, this paper examines, the cross-country differences in policy approaches to product market competition and their consequences for product market rents.
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09-Aug-2007
Jens Høj
The aim of Economics Department Working Paper no 568 is to construct indicators that measure the strength of policies aimed at preserving and promoting market competition by empowering antitrust and sectoral authorities.
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23-Jan-2007
Christian Gianella and William Tompson
This paper examines the potential of innovation policy to raise productivity growth. Economics Department Working Paper 539.
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14-Dec-2006
Paul Conway and Giuseppe Nicoletti
This paper describes indicators of policies that affect competition in non-manufacturing in OECD countries. Economics Department Working Paper 530.
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12-Sep-2006
Paul Conway, Donato De Rosa, Giuseppe Nicoletti and Faye Steiner
Can differences in regulation explain the recent divergence of productivity across OECD countries? Economics Department Working Paper 509.
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09-Aug-2006
Andrés Fuentes, Eckhard Wurzel and Andreas Reindl
Much scope remains to make regulation of product markets more conducive to competition - notwithstanding progress in recent years - with substantial benefits for consumer welfare, productivity and employment. Economics Department Working Paper 507.
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