Progress in Policy Reform: Overview

The Investment Compact promotes and supports policy reforms that aim to improve the investment climate in South East Europe (SEE) and thereby encourage increased investment and the development of a strong private sector. Measuring progress in imp...

Progress in Policy Reform in South East Europe: Monitoring Instruments

It is vital for South East European countries to manage and track their progress in reform against a coherent set of benchmarks and the Monitoring Instruments serve that purpose.

Draft Agenda for seminar on Foundations for Investment: Progress and Challenges in Regulatory Reform

Draft agenda of an international seminar co-hosted by the Government of Greece and the OECD, as part of the Investment Compact Initiative on Regulatory Reform for South East Europe in the framework of the investment compact of the Stability Pact,...

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.

Regulatory Reform in Ireland

This review on Ireland presents an integrated assessment of regulatory reform in framework areas such as the quality of the public sector, competition policy and enforcement, and market openness with recommendations for regulatory reform.

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.

The Role of Competition Policy in Regulatory Reform in Ireland

Competition policy is central to regulatory reform. Its principles and analysis provide a benchmark for assessing the quality of economic and social regulations. It motivates the application of laws that protect competition, which must be applied vigorously as regulatory reform stimulates structural change so that private market abuses do not reverse the benefits of reform.

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