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Competition: The rules of the game

22-Jun-2007

In presenting the Competition Assessment Toolkit, Angel Gurría noted Mexico's substantial progress in developing competition in its economy over the past 15 years, and that there are strategic sectors still insulated from a competitive environment and in which undue restrictions prevail.

Competition in Bidding Markets

13-Jun-2007

Competition authorities become interested in auctions by a number of routes. In competition advocacy, they may advise other parts of government on how to design auctions in order to improve their efficiency—the degree of competition. They may evaluate mergers and agreements between firms that operate in auction markets. And they may be concerned with collusion and abuse of a dominant position in auctions.

Remedies and Sanctions in Abuse of Dominance Cases

22-May-2007

This roundtable addressed the potential objectives of remedies and sanctions, general suggestions for designing effective remedies, specific types of remedies and sanctions along with their strengths and weaknesses, and the remedies and sanctions applied in recent abuse of dominance cases.

Policy Brief: Competition and Barriers to Entry

19-Feb-2007

Before a firm can compete in a market, it has to be able to enter it. Many markets have at least some impediments that make it more difficult for a firm to enter. A debate over how to define the term “barriers to entry” began decades ago, however, and it has yet to be won.

Competition Law and Policy in Argentina

12-Oct-2006

The OECD finds that in the past 25 years Argentina has made considerable, if uneven, progress toward building a successful market economy. Argentina's progress in competition policy has also been uneven, having been affected in many ways by the country's political and economic history.  The report was presented and peer-reviewed at the OECD-IDB Latin American Competition Forum in July 2006. The report describes and critiques competition law and enforcement in Argentina and offers some far-ranging recommendations on how it can be improved.  [Spanish Version]

Boosting competition in Ireland

15-Jun-2006

This paper discusses ways to strengthen competition in order to boost productivity growth and help restrain inflation.  Economics Department Working Paper 491 by David Rae, Line Vogt and Michael Wise.

China needs far-reaching reforms in public and corporate governance, OECD says

07-Sep-2005

China needs to make wide-ranging changes in the way it runs its public and private sectors if it is to continue on a stable growth path leading to full integration into the world economy, according to a new report from the OECD.




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