Competition: Economic Issues

The strength of product market competition plays an important role in economic growth and affects economic efficiency, the allocation of resources, and can also lead to improved labour market performance. The Economics Department is examining product market competition and economic performance in order to identify product market policies that are conducive to growth and employment.
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Russia: progress in structural reform and framework conditions

02-Jan-2012

In the 16 years since the OECD began conducting Economic Surveys of the Russian Federation, a great many policy recommendations relating to structural reform and framework conditions have been made. This paper, expanding on Annex 1.A1 in the 2011 OECD Economic Survey of the Russian Federation, provides a summary tabulation of the state of implementation of a large number of these past Survey recommendations.

Russia: the business environment needs to be more competition-friendly

12-Dec-2011

A key aspect of the business climate, insofar as it bears on the performance of the economy as a whole, is the degree to which it facilitates competition. The OECD’s product market regulation (PMR) indicators, which measure the extent to which policy settings promote competition in markets for goods and services where competition is viable, suggest that such policy settings remain relatively anti-competitive in Russia.

Israel: Competiton - Economic issues

12-Dec-2011

In the energy sector, there is sluggish reform in electricity and concerns about competition in natural gas. Competition issues in the financial sector remain a subject of debate.

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